Through the Uvalde taking pictures, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse texted him for help. “I asked my barber if he had a gun,” he mentioned.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males obtained textual content messages in regards to the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an active shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

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 started serving to.

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

With folks fleeing to a funeral house throughout the street, Albarado said he needed to get inside the varsity as quick as he could.

"I was performing as a husband and a father," he said.

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral dwelling, but she told him their daughter was locked in a faculty restroom.

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

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

"We need to get the kids out of here," Albarado said he advised 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 people to security.

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

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

While Border Patrol agents were on the crew that breached the classroom the place the gunman was holed up, Albarado wasn't in that group.

"I did not have my gear, and so it would not have been a smart move for me to get into the constructing," he said. "I did not have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate defense."

During a press conference final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Security mentioned the school district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was not an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a review of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they had been doing the whole lot of their power they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com