Throughout the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s wife 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 males got textual content messages about the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an active shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer on the faculty, and their daughter is a scholar there.

"I requested my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, told CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the college earlier that morning and was off duty, with his weapon at dwelling.

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

"Children are popping out the home windows," he said.

With individuals fleeing to a funeral house across the road, Albarado said he wished to get inside the college as fast as he could.

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

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

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

He ultimately discovered his daughter was in a restroom positioned inside her classroom. Albarado met up with two officers close to the classroom.

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

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Reduction. Big relief."

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

While Border Patrol brokers have been on the staff 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 wouldn't have been a good move for me to get into the building," he mentioned. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a good enough protection."

During a press convention final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Security mentioned the school district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was positioned because he thought it was now not an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a assessment of the police response.

For his half, Albarado stated he wasn't in a position to assess the response.

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com