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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men received text messages about the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an active shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

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

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

"Youngsters are popping out the windows," he mentioned.

With people fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the road, Albarado mentioned he needed to get inside the school as fast as he could.

"I used to be appearing 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 didn't know what restroom," Albarado stated.

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

"We have to get the children out of right here," Albarado stated he instructed 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 stated he guided people to safety.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado mentioned. "Relief. Large aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents had been on the group 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 smart decision for me to get into the building," he said. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

During a press convention final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the varsity district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I imagine they had been doing every thing in their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com