Through the Uvalde capturing, an off-duty federal agent’s spouse 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 textual content messages concerning the capturing unfolding at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, final week. “There’s an energetic shooter. Assist. Love you,” Albarado’s spouse Trisha stated in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

She’s a fourth grade trainer on the faculty, and their daughter is a pupil there.

“I requested my barber if he had a gun,” Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Safety agent, informed CBS Information on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony on the faculty earlier that morning and was off obligation, together with his weapon at residence.

The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, they usually rushed to the chaotic scene. Law enforcement officials have been already there, and Albarado began serving to.

“Children are popping out the home windows,” he stated.

With folks fleeing to a funeral residence throughout the road, Albarado stated he wished to get inside the college as quick as he may.

“I used to be appearing as a husband and a father,” he stated.

His spouse let him know she made it to the funeral residence, however she informed him their daughter was locked in a college restroom.

“I did not know what restroom,” Albarado stated.

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

“We have to get the youngsters out of right here,” Albarado stated he informed the officers. “… The shooter’s over there. We have to get the youngsters out. That is our time.”

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

“First classroom, second classroom, third classroom, noticed my daughter,” Albarado stated. “Reduction. Large aid.”

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

Whereas Border Patrol brokers have been 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 good move for me to get into the constructing,” he stated. “I did not have my vest. A shotgun’s not a adequate protection.”

Throughout a press convention final week, the pinnacle of the Texas Division of Public Security stated the faculty district’s police chief did not initially ship officers into the classroom the place the gunman was positioned as a result of he thought it was now not an active-shooter state of affairs. The U.S. Justice Division is conducting a evaluation of the police response.

For his half, Albarado stated he wasn’t ready to evaluate the response.

“I do know my fellow officers,” he stated, “and … to me, coronary heart of hearts, I imagine they have been doing every thing of their energy they might do.”