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 stated.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both men bought textual content messages about the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor on the faculty, and their daughter is a student there.

"I requested 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 on the school earlier that morning and was off obligation, together with his weapon at dwelling.

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 started serving to.

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

With people fleeing to a funeral home across the road, Albarado mentioned he needed to get inside the college as quick as he may.

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

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral residence, however she informed 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 near the classroom.

"We need to get the kids out of right here," Albarado stated he informed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the kids out. That 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 stated. "Relief. Massive relief."

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers had been on the team 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 good move for me to get into the building," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

During a press convention last week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Security said the college district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a overview of the police response.

For his half, Albarado said he wasn't ready to assess the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they have been doing all the pieces of their power they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com