WINDER, Ga. — A 14-year-old Georgia high school student has been charged as an adult with using an assault rifle to kill two students and two teachers in the hallway outside his math classroom, authorities said.
The to shoot at Apalachee High School in Winder, about an hour’s drive from Atlanta, the last among the dozens of school shootings in the US in recent years, including the particularly deadly one in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, Florida; And Uvalde, Texas.
Here’s what we know about the victims of Wednesday’s shooting:
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, were killed. Math teacher Christina Irimie, 53, was also killed.
Richard Aspinwall, 39, taught math and was the defensive coordinator for the high school football team. Head coach Mike Hancock told the Athenian Banner-Herald that Aspinwall was a wonderful husband and father who loved his daughters and wife, loved football and was highly respected.
“He worked his ass off,” Hancock said. “He coached the old-fashioned way, but he loved those guys.”
Jay Garcia, a ninth-grader at Apalachee High School and former football player, attended a prayer meeting Wednesday at a park in downtown Winder, remembering the coach and teacher who helped him so much, both in his football learning and in life.
“You can’t bring back the dead,” Garcia said. “I understand that some people will be gone tomorrow and will never forget who they are and what they meant to you.”
