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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both men received textual content messages in regards to the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively 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 faculty, and their daughter is a pupil there.

"I requested my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, instructed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the school earlier that morning and was off obligation, with his weapon at home.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral home across the road, Albarado said he needed to get inside the varsity as fast as he may.

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

His wife let him know she made it to the funeral residence, but she informed him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

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

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

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

The officers started opening classroom doors, and Albarado stated he guided individuals to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Relief. Massive relief."

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

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 didn't have my gear, and so it wouldn't have been a good move for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

Throughout a press convention last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Safety mentioned the varsity district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was located because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a assessment of the police response.

For his half, Albarado stated he wasn't able to evaluate the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I imagine they have been doing every little thing of their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com