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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males acquired text messages in regards to the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an active shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor at the faculty, and their daughter is a scholar there.

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

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, they usually rushed to the chaotic scene. Police officers had been already there, and Albarado started serving to.

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

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

"I was acting as a husband and a father," he stated.

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

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

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

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

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado stated he guided individuals to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Relief. Large relief."

He hugged and kissed her, and soon she was heading to the school car parking zone.

While Border Patrol brokers have been on the crew 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 would not have been a good move for me to get into the building," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

Throughout a press conference final week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the varsity district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

For his half, Albarado said he wasn't ready to evaluate the response.

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com