Through the Uvalde capturing, an off-duty federal agent’s wife texted him for assist. “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 taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, told CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the college earlier that morning and was off duty, together with his weapon at house.

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

"Youngsters are coming out the windows," he stated.

With people fleeing to a funeral residence across the road, Albarado said he wished to get inside the college as quick as he may.

"I was acting as a husband and a father," he said.

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral house, however she advised him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

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

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

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

The officers began opening classroom doors, and Albarado mentioned he guided individuals to security.

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

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

While Border Patrol agents had been on the workforce 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 building," he stated. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate defense."

Throughout a press convention last week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Security said the school district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they had been doing all the pieces of their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com