Throughout the Uvalde capturing, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse 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 got textual content messages in regards to the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final 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 teacher at the school, and their daughter is a scholar there.

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, instructed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the faculty earlier that morning and was off responsibility, together with his weapon at home.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and so they rushed to the chaotic scene. Police officers have been already there, and Albarado started serving to.

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

With people fleeing to a funeral residence across the street, Albarado mentioned he needed to get inside the school as fast as he could.

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

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

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

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 kids out of here," Albarado stated he advised the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the kids out. This is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doors, and Albarado stated he guided people to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado said. "Aid. Big reduction."

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

While Border Patrol brokers 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 would not 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 ok defense."

During a press conference last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Security said the college district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located because he thought it was now not an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

For his part, Albarado mentioned he wasn't able to evaluate the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they have been doing every little thing in their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com