Throughout the Uvalde shooting, 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 each men received text messages in regards to the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

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

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

"Kids are popping out the windows," he mentioned.

With individuals fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the street, Albarado said he needed to get inside the school as quick as he might.

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

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

"I didn't know what restroom," Albarado stated.

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

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

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado stated he guided individuals to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado said. "Reduction. Massive aid."

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

While Border Patrol agents were on the staff that breached the classroom where 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 mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate defense."

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

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

"I know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I consider they were doing everything of their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com