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 stated.

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when each males obtained text messages about the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an active shooter. Assist. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade instructor on the school, and their daughter is a student there.

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

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

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

With folks fleeing to a funeral home across the road, Albarado said he wanted to get inside the school as fast as he could.

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

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral home, but she advised him their daughter was locked in a school restroom.

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

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

"We need to get the children out of here," Albarado mentioned he informed the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the youngsters out. This is our time."

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado said he guided folks to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, saw my daughter," Albarado stated. "Aid. Big relief."

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

Whereas Border Patrol agents have been on the workforce 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 constructing," he stated. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

Throughout a press convention last week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Security stated the school district's police chief didn't initially send officers into the classroom where the gunman was positioned because he thought it was no longer an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluate of the police response.

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

"I do know my fellow officers," he said, "and … to me, heart of hearts, I imagine they have been doing all the things of their energy they may do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com