ChavezThree 911 calls on a Could 14 afternoon are every distressing chapters in the identical unhappy story.One comes from Anthony Carl Chavez's son as he frantically performs CPR on him in entrance of their Servia Drive house in St. Johns County."Tony, Tony, do not die on me," he's heard saying because the 911 dispatcher is typing and sirens are …
Three 911 calls on a Could 14 afternoon are every distressing chapters in the identical unhappy story.
One comes from Anthony Carl Chavez’s son as he frantically performs CPR on him in entrance of their Servia Drive house in St. Johns County.
“Tony, Tony, do not die on me,” he’s heard saying because the 911 dispatcher is typing and sirens are heard. “They’re coming. Do not die on me, I want you!”
The second 911 name is from a frightened neighbor who has simply locked herself indoors after seeing an older man waving a gun, as soon as at her, as he walks from the cul-de-sac.
“He is been identified to, like, pull his gun out earlier than a number of instances,” she advised a dispatcher. “There’s some individuals within the cul-de-sac, and he was strolling from the cul-de-sac again towards his home. And he had the gun in his hand.”
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And the third is the closing chapter as a person tells a dispatcher {that a} neighbor is useless in a yard.
“My neighbor simply shot himself,” the caller instantly says, with approaching sirens wailing within the background. “It appears that method. He is within the again, on the again garden.”
The incident report would not say a lot about what led as much as the shootings at about 3:30 p.m. that Saturday on the suburban highway off St. Johns Parkway.
The report mentioned a handgun was discovered close to 74-year-old Jose Alberto Melendez’s physique behind his house.
A search of court docket information exhibits no native legal pasts for both man. And Chavez relations advised Motion Information Jax he did not even know him.
Melendez was strolling his canine as Chavez and son Gabriel Thoma labored on a automobile within the cul-de-sac. He was staring them down, nevertheless it was temporary and Thoma advised Motion Information he did not suppose a lot about it.
A short time later the older man walked over and mentioned one thing to Chavez, and pulled out the gun. Chavez solely had time to say “Whoa” earlier than he was shot twice, Thoma advised the TV information station. Melendez began capturing at Thoma, who ran behind a automobile and then known as 911 as he tried to avoid wasting his father.
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One other Servia Drive neighbor advised First Coast Information there was “drama over there,” some form of arguments, however he did not know specifics.
In a GoFundMe plea for funeral bills, Jessica Chavez wrote that her husband was such a loving particular person and “Everybody who knew him is aware of that he had a giant coronary heart. This horrible incident was not anticipated in any method. Mindless violence.”
The 911 calls depict a gripping scene after the gunshots that hit Chavez and the one which killed Melendez minutes later.
Performing CPR on Chavez, Thoma instantly tells the dispatcher he has been shot twice. He says he is an EMT scholar attempting to avoid wasting him.
“I simply want you to get right here ASAP, please!” he says.
He identifies the shooter as “a man that lives down the road. It appears like we’re previous his home,” he says, then returns his consideration to Chavez.
He says he’s not respiration after being shot within the again and aspect,
“Keep alive Tony, you are with me,” he’s heard saying, then addresses the dispatcher. “Please come, please.”
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The dispatcher tells him assist “is coming as quick as they will” as she reassures him, telling him to proceed CPR.
“I received this, I received this,” he responds, telling the dispatcher the gunman went again to his home. He tells the dispatcher once more that he’s an EMT scholar and simply graduated.
“He is attempting to breathe, he is attempting to breathe,” the younger man relays, then talks to Chavez once more, urging him to remain alive.
“You aren’t going to die on me. I’m not going to allow them to kill you,” the decision ending as he says “the cops simply received right here.”
The girl neighbor fills in some extra of what occurred, telling the dispatcher she went outdoors after listening to “some loud noises.” That is when she noticed the man who “lives a couple of doorways down” with a gun that he is displayed earlier than.
The caller describes the gunman as older, sporting a hat and grey T-shirt, who “made eye contact” along with her, then started strolling her method. So she bumped into her house and known as 911.
“I suppose anyone within the cul-de-sac p****ed him off or one thing,” she says.
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She says she additionally noticed a person believed to have been the primary 911 caller “on the cellphone, freaking out” as he was additionally apparently calling police for assist.
As first responders arrive following the primary two callers, the third neighbor calls 911 about the physique in Melendez’s yard.
Nobody else is there, the neighbor says as he tells the dispatcher it would not seem the person is respiration. Another person is then heard talking with the caller, and so they each say “Oh, he is shot himself.”
“There’s the gun,” the caller says to whoever has come into the yard with him, adopted by numerous speaking because the dispatcher tries to get extra info.
“Oh, the cops are right here. I’ll go,” the caller says earlier than that decision ends.
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