Isaias Melendez Knows All The Texas Children Who Were Shot, But Not Their Ages.

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I want to begin, you say yes, Melendez and I witness at the scene and you say yes, first of all, I'm sorry that you have to join us under such horrific circumstances. Can you tell us what you saw, what you heard and where you are? Yeah, well it was this morning I was sitting with my friend and we were just hanging out at his house and I got a call from my mom asking if I heard the gunshots because we do live in the same area as the school. And I said no and ask her on the phone we could just hear more gunshots and then she walked outside and got in the car to go see what was going on because why I wasn't home and there was cops driving so many cops like speeding towards the school and she told me to go see what was going on in the school and I told my friend if you wanted to go check it out you said yes so he went to go check it out and that's whenever the border patrols there was just any any type of law enforcement just there trying to trying to see what was going on trying to help out everybody just going crazy parents running up and down and they had a cop there hovering over the school and we heard the gunshots and they were saying that the shooter was actually shooting out the window and having to shoot out with the cops broad daylight in front of our eyes parents going crazy because children were scared and they're running out of the school you could actually see some of the children from the other classrooms running from the school yeah running out of the school and ESA is what can that about can you tell us about the community I know it's a small town I'm sure most families are familiar with everyone else who lives there a community that sort of relies on one another depends on one another yeah very small community I mean everybody every single kid that got shot just some kind of relation I know everything one either it's some of my friends or someone from my friends cousins or I mean actually two of the kids that got shot were two of my girlfriend's cousins and without naming any names we certainly don't want to do that on the air here we want to wait for a law enforcement to do that because they have the painful task of notifying the family so we don't want names on the air certainly but can you tell us anything more about what age range we thought we believe that some of these victims are what what what grade the classroom was or or classrooms that were targeted I'm not too sure I'm not too sure on that and what can you tell us about help for these parents that you described running to and from the scene help with them trying to find their loved ones were you able to see if any of those parents were in fact helped to consult are they getting what they need you know you could just see the fear in their eyes I mean we were out told we were out told to um to step back I mean we didn't know what was going on we were just out told to step back and I mean as a parent I mean I I guess it doesn't matter you're gonna put your life in jeopardy for your kid East IES Melendez we really do appreciate your observations on such a horrific day in your community and I'm sorry for you having to live through and witness what you saw there this afternoon but you've been listening here to ABC News Live coverage the witness they're talking about watching parents run to the school trying to find out anything they could about their own children their own loved ones waiting for word from authorities IZA also described the gunshots that he could still hear once he arrived at that school and also the children running from the school from the other classrooms to safety all of this as he was standing there watching this playout