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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males got text messages about the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor 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, told CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the college earlier that morning and was off duty, along with his weapon at house.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral house across the road, Albarado stated he needed to get inside the school as quick 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 house, but she instructed him their daughter was locked in a school restroom.

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

He eventually learned 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 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 said he guided folks to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Reduction. Large reduction."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents have been on the workforce 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 smart move for me to get into the building," he mentioned. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

Throughout a press conference last week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Safety said the varsity 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 scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a overview of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I believe they have been doing all the things of their energy they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com