Through the Uvalde capturing, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse texted him for assist. “I asked my barber if he had a gun,” he mentioned.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both men got text messages concerning the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an lively shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer at 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 Safety agent, informed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off obligation, along 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 were already there, and Albarado began serving to.

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

With people fleeing to a funeral home throughout the street, Albarado said he wanted 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 house, however she informed him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

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

He eventually discovered 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 stated he informed 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 said he guided people to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Aid. Big aid."

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

While Border Patrol brokers had been on the group that breached the classroom where 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 did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

Throughout a press conference final week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Security mentioned the college district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a overview of the police response.

For his half, Albarado said 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 were doing every part in their power they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com