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

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

She's a fourth grade teacher on the school, and their daughter is a student 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 responsibility, 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.

"Youngsters are coming out the home windows," he said.

With people fleeing to a funeral residence across the road, Albarado mentioned he needed to get inside the school as fast as he may.

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

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

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

He ultimately learned his daughter was in a restroom located inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers near the classroom.

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

The officers began opening classroom doors, and Albarado mentioned he guided individuals to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Reduction. Large relief."

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

While Border Patrol agents had been on the group 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 move for me to get into the constructing," he stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough defense."

Throughout a press conference last week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Security said the school district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located because he thought it was now not an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I consider they had been doing everything in their energy they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com