During 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 both men obtained text messages in regards to the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, last week. "There's an energetic shooter. Help. Love you," Albarado's spouse Trisha mentioned in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

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

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and so 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 individuals fleeing to a funeral home throughout the street, Albarado said he needed to get inside the college as fast as he might.

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

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

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

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

"We have to get the children out of here," Albarado mentioned 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 doors, and Albarado mentioned he guided individuals to security.

"First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter," Albarado stated. "Relief. Huge aid."

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

While Border Patrol agents were on the staff 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 decision for me to get into the constructing," he mentioned. "I didn't have my vest. A shotgun's not a ok defense."

During a press convention final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Department of Public Safety said the varsity district's police chief did not initially send officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned because he thought it was not 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 evaluate the response.

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

Alex Sundby is a senior editor for CBSNews.com