In the course of the Uvalde capturing, an off-duty federal agent’s wife texted him for help. “I requested my barber if he had a gun,” he mentioned.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each men got textual content messages about the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary School 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 instructor at the school, and their daughter is a pupil there.

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

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and they rushed to the chaotic scene. Police officers were already there, and Albarado began helping.

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

With folks fleeing to a funeral dwelling throughout the road, Albarado mentioned he wanted to get inside the school as quick as he may.

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

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral home, however she instructed 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 near the classroom.

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

The officers started opening classroom doorways, and Albarado mentioned he guided people to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado said. "Reduction. Huge reduction."

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers had 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 constructing," he stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a adequate protection."

Throughout a press convention last week, the top of the Texas Department of Public Security said the college 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 no longer an active-shooter situation. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a review of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he stated, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I consider they had been doing all the pieces of their power they might do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com