MIDLAND, Texas — MPD has been investigating a homicide incident that occurred on April 8 around 3:30 p.m. at the 4300 block of Pleasant Drive.
20-year-old Isaias S. Nunez had multiple stab wounds when MPD arrived on the scene. MPD was told the suspect fled the scene.
Neighbors call it chaos in the middle of the day. Ashley Smith saw it all.
"The two gentlemen got in a fist fight in the middle of the yard, and all I saw was the one that had come to the house in the vehicle was making like puncturing movements on the guy and I could tell there was something in his hand and I just called 911 because it looked like this guy was getting stabbed," Smith said.
Smith immediately grabbed her phone knowing that Nunez needed help fast.
"It wasn’t even that anything was going through my mind besides the fact that this kid might die, you know," Smith said. "It never dawned on me to not call, you know what I mean, to see that it was going down the way that it was something serious was happening and I just called."
Nunez was transported to Midland Memorial Hospital for his injuries. The suspect involved in the incident was located later at the 5000 block of Pleasant Drive.
The suspect was found and immediately taken into custody and transported to the Midland Police Department.
The 16-year-old suspect confessed to Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.
The question that remains is why did this happen?
"We know them pretty well," Smith said. "Our kids play together and so we’ve had a lot of interaction with the family over the last couple years that we’ve lived here so I mean we’ve known the family. They’re good people."
MPD was later contacted by MMH that Nunez was pronounced dead and that the 16-year-old male suspect will be charged with murder.
No matter the reason, a neighborhood and family are mourning.
"I couldn’t even fathom losing one of my children, you know, and that’s the super sad part about it right now," Smith said. "It’s not even that I saw everything that happened. The fact that I can understand that mother's loss because that is something you can never get back. Our children are supposed to bury us, we’re not supposed to bury our children."
The investigation is still ongoing.