In the course of the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s wife texted him for assist. “I requested my barber if he had a gun,” he stated.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males got textual content messages in regards to the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an active shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer on the faculty, 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, instructed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the college earlier that morning and was off duty, along with his weapon at dwelling.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and so they rushed to the chaotic scene. Law enforcement officials have been already there, and Albarado started helping.

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

With folks fleeing to a funeral house throughout the street, Albarado mentioned he needed to get inside the college as fast as he might.

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

His wife let him know she made it to the funeral home, but she informed him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

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

He ultimately realized his daughter was in a restroom situated inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers near the classroom.

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

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado said. "Reduction. Large reduction."

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

While Border Patrol agents have been on the crew 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 would not have been a smart move for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate defense."

Throughout a press conference final week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Security stated the college district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was situated because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a overview of the police response.

For his half, Albarado mentioned he wasn't ready to assess the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they have been doing all the things of their energy they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com