A high school volleyball coach was shot and killed while enjoying an evening at a popular rooftop bar.
Ayden Rose Burt, 28, was hit in the back by a stray bullet shortly after midnight Tuesday at the Smoke Skybar in San Antonio, police said.
She was a coach and teacher at Jasper ISD and was visiting town for the Texas High School Coaches Association Conference.
Officers believe the shooting came from a random vehicle outside the bar near Interstate 37, he said. 12 News.
“She was a mentor to many and a very fun person to be around. She was also the best track coach,” one of Burt’s athletes said in a tribute on Facebook.
Ayden Rose Burt, 28, was visiting San Antonio for the Texas High School Coaches Association Conference when she was killed.
Burt was reportedly sitting on the upper patio of the popular downtown bar, with her back to the road, when she was shot.
Burt was reportedly sitting on the upper patio of the popular downtown bar, with her back to the road, when she was shot.
She was taken to the hospital, where she died from her injuries. Police said the shooting was random and they are working to bring justice to her family.
John Seybold of the Jasper Independent School District said: SBG San Antonio Burt was a track and volleyball coach at Jasper County High School.
Seybold said Burt was attending an event sponsored by a vendor when she was killed.
She had worked in the school district for more than five years and recently announced on Facebook that she would be teaching senior and sophomore English classes this upcoming school year after teaching at the high school.
“I can’t thank the family that is (Jasper Junior High School) enough for the educator they have made me into, for how they have helped me grow as an individual, and for the endless love and support,” Burt said.
She was attending a vendor-sponsored event at the popular downtown bar when the random shooting occurred.
‘Working with some of my former teachers, who later became mentors and then lifelong friends, has truly been a special adventure that I wouldn’t trade for the world.
‘I’m not only excited about this opportunity to teach many of my former students again, but also to teach the class that made me fall in love with literature in the first place.’
Burt was beloved by the school district and community members called the teacher a “gem.”
“I’m going to miss her. She was a girl I looked forward to seeing every day, even at school or in Swat. She was a girl who never let you down. I loved her so much it doesn’t even seem real,” said one student.
