In the course of the Uvalde taking pictures, 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 textual content messages concerning the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an active shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer at 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 Protection agent, instructed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the college earlier that morning and was off obligation, 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 began serving to.

"Kids are coming out the windows," he mentioned.

With people fleeing to a funeral residence across the road, Albarado said he wanted to get inside the school as fast as he might.

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

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

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

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

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

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado said he guided folks to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Relief. Massive reduction."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents were on the group 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 mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough defense."

Throughout a press conference last week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Security mentioned the varsity district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was located as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a overview of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they have been doing everything in their energy they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com