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 stated.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males acquired textual content messages concerning the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last 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 teacher on the college, and their daughter is a scholar there.

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, advised 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, they usually rushed to the chaotic scene. Law enforcement officials were already there, and Albarado began helping.

"Kids are coming out the windows," he said.

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

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

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

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

He ultimately 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 kids out of here," Albarado stated he instructed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the kids out. This is our time."

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Reduction. Massive reduction."

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

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

Throughout a press convention final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Safety stated the college district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was now not an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

For his part, Albarado mentioned he wasn't ready to evaluate the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I imagine they were doing all the things in their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com