Through the Uvalde shooting, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse texted him for help. “I requested my barber if he had a gun,” he mentioned.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males acquired textual content messages in regards to the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an lively shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer on the faculty, and their daughter is a student there.

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, advised CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the faculty earlier that morning and was off obligation, together with his weapon at residence.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and they rushed to the chaotic scene. Law enforcement officials had been already there, and Albarado began serving to.

"Children are popping out the home windows," he mentioned.

With folks fleeing to a funeral home across the road, Albarado mentioned he wished to get inside the college as quick as he could.

"I was appearing as a husband and a father," he mentioned.

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral home, however she advised him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

"I didn't know what restroom," Albarado mentioned.

He finally discovered his daughter was in a restroom located inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers close to the classroom.

"We have to get the youngsters out of right here," Albarado stated he informed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the kids out. This is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado stated he guided people to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Reduction. Big aid."

He hugged and kissed her, and soon she was heading to the varsity parking lot.

While Border Patrol brokers had been on the workforce that breached the classroom the place the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

"I didn't have my gear, and so it would not have been a good move for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

Throughout a press conference final week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Safety said the college district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

For his half, Albarado said he wasn't in a position to evaluate the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they had been doing all the pieces of their energy they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com