Through the Uvalde shooting, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse texted him for assist. “I asked my barber if he had a gun,” he mentioned.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males received text messages in regards to the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic 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 scholar there.

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

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

"Youngsters are popping out the windows," he said.

With individuals fleeing to a funeral dwelling across the road, Albarado said 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 home, but she advised him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

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

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

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

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Aid. Huge aid."

He hugged and kissed her, and soon she was heading to the varsity parking zone.

While Border Patrol agents have been on the workforce 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 smart decision for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

Throughout a press convention final week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Safety said the college district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was located as a result of he thought it was not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a review of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they were doing every thing in their energy they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com