Throughout the Uvalde taking pictures, 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 males bought text messages concerning the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer 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, told CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off obligation, along with his weapon at house.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the street, Albarado said he wished to get inside the school as fast as he could.

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

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

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

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

"We have to get the kids out of right here," Albarado said he informed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the kids out. That is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doors, and Albarado stated he guided folks to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado said. "Relief. Huge reduction."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents had been on the workforce 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 would not have been a good move for me to get into the building," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

Throughout a press convention last week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Security mentioned the college district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned 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 half, Albarado mentioned he wasn't ready to assess the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I consider they have been doing every part of their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com