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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males acquired textual content messages about the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an energetic shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer on the school, and their daughter is a pupil there.

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

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

"Youngsters are popping out the home windows," he stated.

With individuals fleeing to a funeral residence across the street, Albarado said he wished to get inside the school as fast as he could.

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

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

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

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

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

The officers began opening classroom doors, and Albarado stated he guided people to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Reduction. Massive aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents had been on the crew that breached the classroom the place the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

"I did not 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 convention last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Security mentioned the college district's police chief didn't initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was located because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

For his half, Albarado said he wasn't ready to evaluate the response.

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com