Throughout the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse texted him for assist. “I requested my barber if he had a gun,” he said.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men bought textual content messages concerning the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an active shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

"I requested my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, told CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the faculty earlier that morning and was off duty, with his weapon at home.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and so they rushed to the chaotic scene. Law enforcement officials were already there, and Albarado started helping.

"Kids are popping out the windows," he stated.

With people fleeing to a funeral residence across the street, Albarado said he wished to get inside the college as quick as he may.

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

His wife let him know she made it to the funeral home, but she told him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

"I did not know what restroom," Albarado said.

He ultimately realized his daughter was in a restroom situated inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers near the classroom.

"We need to get the youngsters out of here," Albarado mentioned he advised the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the children out. That is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doors, and Albarado mentioned he guided people to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Aid. Massive aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents were on the team that breached the classroom where the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

"I didn't have my gear, and so it wouldn't have been a good move for me to get into the building," he stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough defense."

During a press convention final week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Safety said the varsity district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a review of the police response.

For his part, Albarado stated he wasn't ready to assess the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I consider they were doing every part of their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com