and darris, you lost your son to a shooting. it s hard for me to understand how the two of you can sit there shoulder to shoulder given the way that your lives have intersected through your sons. how can you do that? well, melvin and his family are as much victims as we are. 10:19 he lost his son. at 10:19 i lost my son. the tragedy of it is goes unrecognized that this was an act of terror. for me, i can speak, and there s a degree of sympathy for me because i ve lost my son. melvin has been speaking out since the day of the shooting trying to identify what caused his son to do what he did. melvin, tell me about the day on june 1st, 2009. you got a phone call, and you were told that your son had shot two individuals at an army recruiting station.
and darris, you lost your son to a shooting. it s hard for me to understand how the two of you can sit there shoulder to shoulder given the way that your lives have intersected through your sons. how can you do that? well, melvin and his family are as much victims as we are. 10:19 he lost his son. at 10:19 i lost my son. the tragedy of it is goes unrecognized that this was an act of terror. for me, i can speak, and there s a degree of sympathy for me because i ve lost my son. melvin has been speaking out since the day of the shooting trying to identify what caused his son to do what he did. melvin, tell me about the day on june 1st, 2009. you got a phone call, and you were told that your son had shot two individuals at an army recruiting station.
army recruiting station. i want you to tell me what went through your mind and were you surprised when this call came to you? i was totally shocked. unbelievable. my son was working for an extended company in little rock and we couldn t reach him that morning by telegraph, got a call from the locations and saying no one was working so we tried to reach him by telegraph, didn t reach him and got in the car to little rock. by the way i got there. i got a call from the fbi said to me on my cell phone. that your son as been involved in a shooting, something bad has happened. and my wife was sitting in the other side. my heart dropped to my shoes and i m saying now i ve got to tell my wife what you just told me. and we was totally shocked. mike: daris, your wife was actually sitting in the parking lot, 50 feet from the
were told that your son had shot two individuals at an army recruiting station. i want you to tell me what went through your mind and how were you even surprised when this call came to you? i was totally shocked. unbelievable. my son was working for our extended company in little rock. we couldn t reach him that morning by telephone. we got a call from the location saying that no one was working, so we tried to reach him by telephone. we didn t reach him and we got in the car and drove to little rock. by the time i got there, i got a call from the fbi and they said to me on my cell phone that your son has been involved in a shooting, something bad has happened, and my wife was sitting to the other side. my heart dropped to my shoes. i m saying now i ve got to tell my wife what you ve just told me. we was totally shocked.
you got a phone call, and you were told that your son had shot two individuals at an army recruiting station. i want you to tell me what went through your mind and how were you even surprised when this call came to you? i was totally shocked. unbelievable. my son was working for our extended company in little rock. we couldn t reach him that morning by telephone. we got a call from the location saying that no one was working, so we tried to reach him by telephone. we didn t reach him and we got in the car and drove to little rock. by the time i got there, i got a call from the fbi and they said to me on my cell phone that your son has been involved in a shooting, something bad has happened, and my wife was sitting to the other side. my heart dropped to my shoes. i m saying now i ve got to tell my wife what you ve just told me. we was totally shocked.