In the course of the Uvalde capturing, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse texted him for help. “I asked my barber if he had a gun,” he stated.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males bought textual content messages about the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an active shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor at 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 Protection agent, advised CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off obligation, together with his weapon at residence.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the street, Albarado mentioned he needed 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 home, but she advised him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

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

He ultimately 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 kids out of here," Albarado mentioned he advised the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the children out. That is our time."

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Reduction. Large reduction."

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

While Border Patrol brokers had been on the team that breached the classroom the place the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

"I didn't have my gear, and so it would not have been a smart decision for me to get into the constructing," he stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

Throughout a press conference final week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Security said the school district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was situated 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 half, Albarado stated he wasn't ready to assess the response.

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I believe they had been doing all the pieces of their energy they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com