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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males obtained textual content messages concerning the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an lively shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade teacher on the college, and their daughter is a scholar 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 faculty earlier that morning and was off duty, together with his weapon at residence.

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

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

With individuals fleeing to a funeral home across the street, Albarado stated he needed to get inside the varsity as quick as he might.

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

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

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

He eventually 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 children out of here," Albarado said he advised the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the children out. That is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado said he guided folks to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Reduction. Huge aid."

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

While Border Patrol agents 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 constructing," he stated. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough protection."

During a press convention final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Security stated the varsity district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located because he thought it was not an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a review of the police response.

For his half, Albarado mentioned he wasn't in a position to assess the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they were doing the whole lot of their energy they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com