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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males got text messages in regards to the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an active shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor 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, informed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the faculty earlier that morning and was off responsibility, along with his weapon at residence.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, they usually rushed to the chaotic scene. Police officers had been already there, and Albarado started serving to.

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

With people fleeing to a funeral house across the street, Albarado stated he needed to get inside the college as quick as he might.

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

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

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

He ultimately learned 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 here," Albarado stated he informed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the kids out. That is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado said he guided individuals to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado said. "Reduction. Big aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers had been on the crew 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 smart decision for me to get into the building," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough defense."

Throughout a press convention final week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Safety stated the varsity district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located as a result of he thought it was not an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

For his half, Albarado mentioned he wasn't able to assess the response.

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com