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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males received textual content messages about the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

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

"Children are coming out the home windows," he mentioned.

With people fleeing to a funeral home throughout the road, Albarado stated he needed to get inside the varsity as quick as he could.

"I used to be acting as a husband and a father," he said.

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

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

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

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

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado stated he guided individuals to safety.

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

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

While Border Patrol brokers were on the crew 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 decision for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough 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 where the gunman was located because he thought it was now not an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a assessment of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I believe they had been doing the whole lot in their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com