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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males obtained textual content messages about the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an lively shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade teacher at 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, instructed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the school earlier that morning and was off responsibility, together with his weapon at dwelling.

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

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

With individuals fleeing to a funeral house across the street, Albarado mentioned he wished to get inside the college as fast as he might.

"I used to be performing as a husband and a father," he stated.

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral dwelling, but she informed him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

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

He finally learned 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 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 mentioned. "Relief. Huge aid."

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

While Border Patrol brokers had been on the group 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 smart decision for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

During a press conference last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Security mentioned the college district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was situated as a result of he thought it was not an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they have been doing all the pieces in their energy they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com