Through the Uvalde shooting, 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 both males obtained textual content messages in regards to the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an active shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

"I asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, told CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off duty, along with his weapon at dwelling.

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

"Children are popping out the home windows," he mentioned.

With people fleeing to a funeral dwelling across the road, Albarado said he wished to get inside the varsity as fast as he may.

"I was acting as a husband and a father," he mentioned.

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

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

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

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

The officers started opening classroom doors, and Albarado mentioned he guided individuals to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Relief. Huge reduction."

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

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

Throughout a press convention final week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Safety stated 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 not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a review of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I imagine they had been doing all the pieces in their power they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com