During the Uvalde shooting, an off-duty federal agent’s wife texted him for assist. “I asked my barber if he had a gun,” he stated.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men received text messages in regards to the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha mentioned 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 asked my barber if he had a gun," Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, instructed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the college earlier that morning and was off responsibility, along with his weapon at home.

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

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

With people fleeing to a funeral house throughout the street, Albarado stated he wanted to get inside the college as fast as he may.

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

His wife let him know she made it to the funeral house, but she informed him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

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

He ultimately learned his daughter was in a restroom positioned 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 advised the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the youngsters out. This is our time."

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Aid. Big aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents 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 would not have been a good move for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

Throughout a press convention final week, the head of the Texas Division of Public Safety said the college 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 situation. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a assessment of the police response.

For his half, Albarado said he wasn't ready to assess the response.

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com