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The father of a 15-year-old Perry High School student says his son was wounded in Thursday morning's school shooting that killed a sixth-grade student and injured four more students and three staff members. Zander Shelley, 15, was in a hallway waiting for the school day to start when he heard gunshots and dashed into a classroom, according to his father, Kevin Shelley. Zander was grazed twice and hid in the classroom before texting his father at 7:36 a.m.Kevin Shelley, who drives a garbage truck and said he has two kids who go to Perry High School, told his boss he had to run. “It was the most scared I’ve been in my entire life,” he said.Kevin Shelley said they took Zander to Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where he's being checked out and treated.His kids are OK, he said, but "scared to death."One parent, Amber Ross, says her 12-year-old daughter was inside the school building when shots rang out.“The middle school and the high school are connected by a hallway where the cafeterias are. The shooter was in the high school cafeteria hallway," Ross said, "and so she was in that hallway leaving. So it could have been her."Ross and her child came to First United Methodist Church, which became a sanctuary for those impacted by the shooting. Pastors welcomed students and parents with open arms, allowing them a safe place to pray, hug and deal with their shock.Rachael Kares, an 18-year-old senior, was wrapping up jazz band practice when she and her bandmates heard what she described as four gunshots, spaced apart.“We all just jumped,” Kares said. “My band teacher looked at us and yelled, ‘Run!’ So we ran.”FOLLOW LIVE COVERAGE FROM PERRY HIGH SCHOOL HERE. Kares and many others from the school ran out past the football field, as she heard people yelling, “Get out! Get out!” She said she heard additional shots as she ran, but didn’t know how many. She was more concerned about getting home to her 3-year-old son.“At that moment, I didn’t care about anything except getting out because I had to get home with my son,” she said.WATCH: Perry High School parent says 15-year-old son was shotFBI agents from the Omaha-Des Moines office were on the scene to help with the investigation led by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.Erica Jolliff said that her daughter, a ninth grader, reported getting rushed from the school grounds at 7:45 am. Distraught, Jolliff was still looking for her son Ahmir, a sixth grader, one hour later.“I just want to know that he’s safe and OK,” Jolliff said. “They won’t tell me nothing.”Jasmine Augustine, 18, was at the high school shortly after everything happened Thursday morning. She said she was dropping off a friend at the high school and his brother, who goes to the town’s elementary school about a mile away.“I was at Casey’s convenience store and saw one car speed by. I thought it was just someone getting pulled over,” she said.WATCH: Officials provide details on Perry High School shootingAugustine said that when she pulled in at the high school, someone told her there was an active shooter, “and then we hurried up and left.”“After that, there’s just tons and tons and tons of cops who came,” said Augustine, whose sister attends the high school but wasn’t near what happened. Jasmine and her dad picked up her sister from the armory afterward.Police describe massive response to Perry High School