During the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse texted him for help. “I requested my barber if he had a gun,” he mentioned.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males got textual content messages about the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an lively shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer on the school, and their daughter is a scholar there.

"I requested my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, advised CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the college 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 they rushed to the chaotic scene. Cops had been already there, and Albarado began helping.

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

With people fleeing to a funeral home throughout the road, Albarado said he wished to get inside the school as fast as he might.

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

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

"I didn't 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 youngsters out of right here," Albarado said 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 doors, and Albarado said he guided people to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Aid. Huge reduction."

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

While Border Patrol brokers were on the group that breached the classroom the place the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

"I didn't have my gear, and so it wouldn't have been a smart move for me to get into the building," he mentioned. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough protection."

Throughout a press convention last week, the top of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the school district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned because he thought it was now not an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a review of the police response.

For his part, Albarado said he wasn't in a position to evaluate the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I consider they have been doing all the things of their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com