Through the Uvalde shooting, 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 each men received text messages about the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade teacher at the college, and their daughter is a student there.

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, told CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the faculty earlier that morning and was off obligation, along 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 have been already there, and Albarado began helping.

"Youngsters are coming out the windows," he mentioned.

With people fleeing to a funeral residence across the road, Albarado mentioned he wished to get inside the college as fast as he may.

"I used to be appearing as a husband and a father," he said.

His wife 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 stated.

He finally 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 children out of right here," Albarado mentioned he told the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the children out. This is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado said he guided individuals to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado said. "Relief. Massive reduction."

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

While Border Patrol agents have been on the staff that breached the classroom where the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

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

During a press conference last week, the top of the Texas Department of Public Security said the school district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a review of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they were doing all the things in their energy they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com