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

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

She's a fourth grade trainer on the college, and their daughter is a scholar there.

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

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and so they rushed to the chaotic scene. Law enforcement officials have been already there, and Albarado started serving to.

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

With folks fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the street, Albarado mentioned he wanted to get inside the varsity as fast as he might.

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

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

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

He finally discovered his daughter was in a restroom positioned inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers close to the classroom.

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

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado mentioned he guided people to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Reduction. Big reduction."

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

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

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

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I consider they were doing all the things of their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com