During the Uvalde shooting, an off-duty federal agent’s wife texted him for help. “I requested 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 Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic 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 college, 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 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 began helping.

"Children are coming out the home windows," he said.

With people fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the street, Albarado mentioned he wanted to get inside the college as quick as he may.

"I used to be acting as a husband and a father," he stated.

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 didn't know what restroom," Albarado said.

He ultimately realized 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 youngsters out of here," Albarado said he instructed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the youngsters out. This is our time."

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Relief. Large aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers 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 wouldn't 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 protection."

During a press convention final week, the top of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the varsity district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a review of the police response.

For his part, Albarado stated he wasn't ready to assess the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I believe they have been doing every thing in their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com