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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men bought textual content messages concerning the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an active shooter. Help. 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 scholar there.

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, advised CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off duty, 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.

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

With people fleeing to a funeral house throughout the road, Albarado said he wished to get inside the college as fast as he could.

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

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral house, but she advised him their daughter was locked in a school restroom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

While Border Patrol brokers have been on the staff that breached the classroom where 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 smart move for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough defense."

Throughout a press conference final week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Security mentioned the varsity district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was now not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they had been doing every little thing of their power they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com