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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both men acquired textual content messages in regards to the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an lively shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

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

"Children are coming out the home windows," he stated.

With people fleeing to a funeral dwelling throughout the road, Albarado mentioned he wished to get inside the college as fast as he might.

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

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

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

He finally 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 youngsters out of right here," Albarado stated he instructed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the kids out. This is our time."

The officers started opening classroom doors, and Albarado stated he guided folks to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado said. "Relief. Large aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers were on the workforce 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 wouldn't have been a smart move for me to get into the building," he stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

Throughout a press conference final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Security said the school district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom where the gunman was situated because he thought it was not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

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

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com