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The last few days have been a nightmare for Jose Alanis.

He rushed out of his home after a neighbor woke him to say something had happened to his 26-year-old son Albert Alanis.

“The neighbor woke me up and told me my son was lying right there, in front of my home in a pool of blood,” Alanis recalled.

Alanis ran to his son’s side but it was too late.
 
“I woke up and ran, my son was still alive, I told him [don’t go] he died in my arms,” Alanis said.
 
Alanis said he could hear his wife’s haunting screams in the back as she witnessed her son die in her husband’s arms.
 
“I imagine he had a gunshot to the head, his entire left side of the head was full of blood,” Alanis said.
 
Alanis believes his son was a good kid. He said Albert was a hard worker despite battling a heart condition and anxiety. 

He constantly had to be medicated but because money was tight and that sometimes he couldn’t afford to buy it. 
 
On Monday, Alanis said his son had surprised him and gave him $30 dollars to take his wife out to eat. 

He said even though his son had a condition it didn't stop him from learning.

Alanis said he’ll always be proud of his son.
 
“He liked to write a lot,” Alanis said about this late son. “Albert would sit outside for hours and write all day.”
 
Alanis said Albert wrote him a letter not too long ago, it said that he loved life and he loved his parents.

To help the Alanis family you can make a donation at any Wells Fargo Bank in care of Lydia Alanis.