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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males got textual content messages about the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, instructed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off responsibility, with his weapon at home.

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

"Youngsters are coming out the home windows," he stated.

With people fleeing to a funeral dwelling across the street, Albarado mentioned he wanted to get inside the varsity as fast as he may.

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

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

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

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

"We need to get the youngsters out of 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 doors, and Albarado said he guided people to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado said. "Reduction. Big reduction."

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

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

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

Throughout a press convention last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Safety stated the school district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was situated because he thought it was not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

For his part, Albarado stated he wasn't able to evaluate the response.

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com