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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men got textual content messages in regards to the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an lively shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade trainer on 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, instructed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the school earlier that morning and was off duty, with his weapon at house.

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

"Children are coming out the home windows," he mentioned.

With people fleeing to a funeral dwelling across the road, Albarado said he wanted to get inside the varsity as quick as he could.

"I was appearing as a husband and a father," he stated.

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

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

He eventually 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 right here," Albarado mentioned he told the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We need to get the children out. That is our time."

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

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Aid. Big aid."

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers were on the staff that breached the classroom where 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 move for me to get into the building," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

Throughout a press convention last week, the top of the Texas Division of Public Security mentioned the school district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was located as a result of he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a review of the police response.

For his part, Albarado said he wasn't able to assess the response.

"I know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I consider they had been doing every part of their power they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com