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

Jacob Albarado was in his barber's chair when both males received textual content messages about the taking pictures unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, final week. "There's an active shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She's a fourth grade teacher 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 Protection agent, instructed CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the school earlier that morning and was off duty, along with his weapon at residence.

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

"Youngsters are coming out the windows," he said.

With folks fleeing to a funeral residence across the street, Albarado said he wished to get inside the college as fast as he might.

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

His wife let him know she made it to the funeral house, but she informed him their daughter was locked in a school restroom.

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

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

"We need to get the youngsters out of here," Albarado stated he told the officers. "… The shooter's over there. We have to get the kids out. That is our time."

The officers began opening classroom doorways, and Albarado said he guided people to safety.

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

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

While Border Patrol agents were on the team 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 would not have been a good move for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok protection."

Throughout a press conference final week, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the college district's police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was situated because he thought it was not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

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

"I know my fellow officers," he mentioned, "and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I imagine they have been doing everything in their energy they could do."

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com