By Kristen Griffith (Whetstone staff writer)

Sophomore Krystle Boyd met junior Chavez Reyes for the first time the same night he was shot.

Boyd and her two girl friends were hanging out with Reyes and his housemates before they drove to a Halloween house party Oct. 31.

The party was on Loockerman Street, according to the Dover Police.

“Things escalated so fast,” Boyd said.

When they arrived, things were already getting out of hand, she said. The hostess instructed people to leave if they would not calm down.

Things settled down, and Boyd described the party as, “chill.”

Later, she said she heard multiple gunshots outside.

“Everyone scattered like roaches and hit the floor,” she said.

Boyd and one of her friends were trying to leave when they ran into their other friend.

“She starts hysterically crying, saying, ‘Chavez just got shot, I saw the whole thing,’” she said. “I felt like I caught her sorrow. As she was crying, I started crying, too.”

Boyd said six shots were fired, but he was only hit three times. She said the person shooting was not necessarily aiming for him.

“I was hysterical,” she said. “I feel like I cried harder in that situation than at my grandmother’s funeral.”

She said the paramedics came and put him in a wheel chair.

“He was bleeding from his leg and someone tied their shirt around it to stop the bleeding,” she said.

Boyd was surprised at Reyes’ reaction to what had happened.

“Despite how much pain you would think he was in, he was calm,” she said. “He was on the phone explaining the situation to someone.”

Boyd said Reyes is in stable condition at Christiana Hospital.

“Details at this time are limited as the police continue to investigate,” said President William Johnston in an email Nov. 1.