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

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

She's a fourth grade teacher at the college, 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, advised 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 house.

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 began serving to.

"Kids are coming out the home windows," he mentioned.

With individuals fleeing to a funeral residence across the road, Albarado mentioned he wished to get inside the school as fast as he might.

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

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

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

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 stated he informed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the children out. That is our time."

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado mentioned he guided folks to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado said. "Aid. Big reduction."

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

While Border Patrol brokers have been on the workforce 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 move for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

During a press convention final week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Safety stated the school district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was situated because he thought it was now not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a review of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they had been doing every little thing in their energy they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com