Through the Uvalde capturing, 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 received text messages about the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an active shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

"I requested my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, informed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the faculty earlier that morning and was off duty, together with his weapon at residence.

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 started serving to.

"Children 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 college as fast as he might.

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

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

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

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

"We have to get the children out of right here," Albarado said he told 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 said he guided folks to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado said. "Relief. Large aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents have 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 wouldn't have been a good move for me to get into the building," he stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough protection."

During a press convention last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Security stated the varsity district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was situated as a result of he thought it was now not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

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

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com