A girl dad, a patient teacher and a student brimming with dreams. These are the victims of the Apalachee High School shooting
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Christina Irimie loved teaching math, laughing and sharing cheesy jokes with her students and friends, who remember her for her infectious joy and passion.
Cristina Irimie loved teaching math, laughing and sharing cheesy jokes with her students and friends, who remember her for her infectious joy and passion. Irimie, 53, was among the four people killed – including two students and another teacher – during a mass shooting Wednesday that has left the community of Apalachee High School and Winder, Georgia, in mourning – the latest tragedy in a nation where gun violence persists seemingly unabated. “We are frustrated that she faced the evil on the front lines and basically gave her life being there, facing the wrath of a person that – for I don’t know what reason – did this thing,” Father Nicolae Clempus, a pastor at one of the Romanian churches Irimie attended, told CNN on Thursday. “It is unfair how things evolved and how it happened, and we are very, very sorry for the way we have to say goodbye.” The Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the others killed as Richard Aspinwall, 39; and Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Of those taken to hospitals with injuries, eight were students and one was a teacher. Mason’s sister, Alanna, remembered him as a loving brother who was learning to play the trumpet because she did and he aspired to be like her when he got older, she told Atlanta’s WAGA. Christian’s mother, Emma Angulo, said she will always cherish the final, tight embrace he gave her the night before the shooting, CNN affiliate Univision reported.
On the morning of the shooting at a Winder, Georgia high school that left four people dead, authorities were “actively looking” for the teenage suspect after the school received a warning call from his mom – but they weren’t able to get to him fast enough because of an identification issue, authorities said.