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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men bought textual content messages concerning the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor at the faculty, 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, informed 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 home.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and they rushed to the chaotic scene. Cops had been already there, and Albarado began helping.

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

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

"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, but she informed him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

"I did not know what restroom," Albarado said.

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

"We have to get the children out of right here," Albarado said he informed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the youngsters out. That 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. Large relief."

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

While Border Patrol agents were on the staff 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 building," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

Throughout a press conference final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Safety stated the college district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I consider they have been doing all the things of their energy they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com