The mother of a 14-year-old student killed in the Apalachee High School shooting has grieved the final morning she spent with her son.
“He hugged my dad and me and I'll always remember that,” Emma Angulo said. UnivisionShe tried desperately to stay calm as she remembered her son, Christian Angulo.
She said the Apalachee High School freshman was a sweet boy with big ambitions for the future.
“He was only 14 years old. They took away his life, his future and his time with us,” she told the station about her killers.
“He shouldn't have had to go through this. He shouldn't have had to die like this,” she said, adding, “I miss him so much. To me this is like… I wish it was a dream.”
According to Fox 5 Atlanta, friends remember the boy as “calm” and had a knack for making people laugh.
One of his friends, Abner Sands, told the outlet he had known Angulo since middle school.
“I started asking other people if it was true that he had died because I just wanted to know. I was in denial because I could never believe that someone I knew could die like that,” he said.
On a GoFundMe page to raise funds for funeral expenses, Angulo's sister, Lissette, posted a loving tribute to her brother.
“He was a very good boy, kind and caring. Loved by many. His loss was sudden and unexpected,” his grieving siblings wrote.
“We are absolutely heartbroken. He really should not have had to go through this.”
The fundraising effort doubled its original goal of $30,000 within 24 hours.
Angulo was one of four people killed in the massacre at a high school near Winder, Georgia, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.
Classmate Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimy, 53, were also killed in the Sept. 4 shooting.
The suspected killer, 14-year-old Colt Gray, and his father, Colin, are being held on murder and manslaughter charges and are scheduled to next appear in court in December.
