- Ricky Aspinwall leaves behind his wife Shayna and two young daughters
A high school football team has paid tribute to its heroic former coach who died while trying to get his students to safety after a teenager went on a shooting rampage at a Georgia school.
“It is with deepest condolences that we share that former MV secondary coach Ricky Aspinwall tragically lost his life during the senseless act that occurred at a nearby high school today,” the Mountain View Bears football team wrote in a post on X.
“Coach A was a beloved member of the MVHS football team and the school’s math department. We are praying for Shayna and her girls,” the post continued.
Several more tributes to the father of two appeared on social media.
User X Brandon Gill wrote: ‘We are incredibly heartbroken over the loss of our dear friend.
A high school football team has paid tribute to its former coach Ricky Aspinwall, who was killed in a deadly shooting at a school in Georgia yesterday.
Ricky Aspinwall with his wife and two young daughters
Professor Richard Aspinwall was named as one of the four victims of the shooting.
“He was truly the best. An extraordinary human being. He would do anything for anyone. An incredible husband, father, teacher and coach.”
TO GoFundMe It was created to support Aspinwall’s wife, Shayna, and their two young daughters.
“We are all in shock at the news that Ricky Aspinwall lost his life protecting his students. Please consider making a donation to help Shayna Aspinwall with her expenses and to ensure her two precious babies are well cared for,” the fundraiser reads.
$60,480 of the $85,000 goal has been raised.
Ricky Aspinwall, a 39-year-old math teacher and football coach, was confirmed as one of four people killed yesterday after 14-year-old suspected shooter Colt Gray, who was armed with an assault rifle, opened fire at Apalachee High.
Mason Schermerhorn, 14, an autistic student at Apalachee High School, was the first victim to be identified. He was among four people killed in the mass shooting.
Teacher Christina Irimie was also identified as a victim
Student Christian Angulo, 14, also lost his life in the senseless shooting.
Also killed were two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and teacher Christina Irmie, 53.
Schermerhorn’s family said he was an autistic student at school and a loved one said after his passing that “it’s sad that we can’t even send our babies to school and have them be safe.”
Nine other people were injured in the bloody attack.
Footage showed students streaming onto campus as terrified parents ran to find their children, with one mother describing the scene outside the school as pure “chaos”.
It was the latest in a series of school shootings in the United States in recent years, including particularly deadly ones in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, Florida; and Uvalde, Texas.
Student Gretchen Gierlach, 18, holds signs after a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder
Mourners pray during a candlelight vigil for students and teachers killed at Apalachee High School
Gray, a junior at the school, immediately turned himself in when he was confronted by police and He will be charged with murder and tried as an adult.
He is currently being held at the Gainesville Regional Juvenile Detention Center.
The student, who was described as a “quiet” teenager who often skipped classes, had been interviewed by the FBI a year ago after “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified time and place.”
Gray had denied making online threats and police alerted local schools to continue monitoring the teen, but there was no probable cause for arrest or further action, the FBI said.
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