Through the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse 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 men bought textual content messages concerning the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, last 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 instructor at the school, and their daughter is a scholar there.

"I requested my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, instructed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the faculty earlier that morning and was off obligation, with his weapon at house.

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

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

With individuals fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the road, Albarado stated he wanted to get inside the school as fast as he could.

"I used to be performing as a husband and a father," he mentioned.

His wife let him know she made it to the funeral residence, but she told him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

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

He eventually learned 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 youngsters out of right here," Albarado said he told the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the youngsters out. That is our time."

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado mentioned he guided folks to security.

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

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

While Border Patrol agents were on the team that breached the classroom where the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

"I did not have my gear, and so it would not have been a good move for me to get into the building," he said. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

Throughout a press convention last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Security mentioned the college district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was located as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

For his part, 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 consider they have been doing the whole lot of their energy they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com