Through the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s wife texted him for help. “I asked my barber if he had a gun,” he said.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both men obtained textual content messages about the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

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

"Children are popping out the home windows," he stated.

With individuals fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the road, Albarado stated he wished to get inside the school as quick as he could.

"I was appearing as a husband and a father," he mentioned.

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

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

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

"We need to get the youngsters out of here," Albarado mentioned he advised the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the kids out. That is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doors, and Albarado said he guided individuals to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado said. "Reduction. Big reduction."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents had been on the group 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 wouldn't have been a good move for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

Throughout a press convention last week, the top of the Texas Department of Public Security mentioned the college district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was located because he thought it was not an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they had been doing everything in their power they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com