The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has identified the four people who died after a shooting at a school on Wednesday (4).
According to authorities, the victims are teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53; and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14.
Here’s what we know:
Richard Aspinwall
The math teacher was described as sweet and kind by first-grade geometry student Ariel Bowling.
Michael Gordon, another student, told CNN : “He was a good man. I had classes with him for a whole year, and he taught me a lot.”
Aspinwall was also an assistant football coach, serving as the defensive coordinator for the Apalachee Wildcats football team.
Cristina Irimie
She was also a math teacher at Apalachee High School, as the school’s website shows. The beloved teacher was celebrating a belated birthday with her students the day she was shot and killed, according to a family friend.
“She decided to bake a cake and bring pizza to her class the day she died,” he told CNN Corneliu Caprar, friend of Irimie and her husband.
Irimie was devoted to her students and treated them as if they were her own children. “Cristina and her husband were not able to have biological children, so she decided to love her students as if they were her own,” Caprar said.
Christian Angulo
He was described by his older sister as a “good kid” who was “very sweet and so caring.”
“He was so loved by so many,” Lisette Angulo wrote in a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his funeral, which included a photo of the teen with a cake on his 14th birthday. “He truly didn’t deserve this.”
Mason Schermerhorn
The 14-year-old was remembered by family friends as a “loving soul” and a “creative boy.”
“He was the sweetest, most loving soul with the biggest smile and will be missed by all of us,” a family friend wrote in a GoFundMe campaign for his family.
Mason was known for his good sense of humor, family friend Rebecca Good told the CNN – WXIA.
“Mason was a funny, creative kid who loved to give big hugs,” Good said. “He should have lived a long life making others smile.”
This content was originally published in What we know about the victims of the Georgia school shooting on CNN Brasil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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