Throughout the Uvalde capturing, 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 men received text messages in regards to the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor at the faculty, and their daughter is a scholar 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 on the faculty earlier that morning and was off obligation, together with his weapon at house.

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

"Children are popping out the windows," he stated.

With folks fleeing to a funeral house throughout the street, Albarado stated he wished to get inside the school as fast as he might.

"I was performing as a husband and a father," he stated.

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral home, but she instructed him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

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

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

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

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Aid. Large aid."

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

While Border Patrol brokers were on the team 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 wouldn't have been a good move for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

Throughout a press convention final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Safety mentioned the varsity district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was situated because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter scenario. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a assessment 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 imagine they were doing all the pieces of their power they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com