In the course of the Uvalde shooting, an off-duty federal agent’s wife texted him for assist. “I requested my barber if he had a gun,” he mentioned.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men obtained textual content messages concerning the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer on the college, 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 Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the faculty earlier that morning and was off duty, along with his weapon at dwelling.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral house throughout the road, Albarado mentioned he needed to get inside the school as quick as he may.

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

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral dwelling, however she told him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

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

He eventually realized his daughter was in a restroom positioned inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers close to the classroom.

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

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado said. "Relief. Big relief."

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers have been on the team that breached the classroom the place 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 good move for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

Throughout a press conference final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Security stated the varsity district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was not an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I imagine they were doing the whole lot of their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com