The distraught mother of the 14-year-old student killed in the Apalachee High School shooting recalls the final morning she spent with her son.
“He hugged his dad and me — I'll always keep that in my heart,” Emma Angulo said. UnivisionShe tries to keep her composure, sometimes remembering her son, Christian Angulo.
He said the new Apalachee student was a lovely boy with great ambitions for his future.
“He was only 14. They took away his whole life, his future, his time with us,” she told the station about the killer.
“He didn't deserve this. He didn't deserve to die like that,” she said, “I miss him. To me it's like … I wish it was a dream.”
Fox 5 Atlanta said his friends remember the teen as being “quiet” and good at making people laugh.
A friend, Abner Sanz, said he had known Angulo since middle school.
“I started asking other people if it was true that he had died, because that's all I wanted to know. I was in denial, because you never believe that someone you know would just die like that,” he said.
On a GoFundMe page raising money for funeral expenses, Angulo's older sister Lisette paid a loving tribute to her brother.
“He was a really good kid, very sweet and very caring. He was very much loved by many people. His passing was very sudden and unexpected,” the grieving brother wrote.
“We're really sad. He really didn't deserve that.”
The fundraiser doubled its initial $30,000 goal in less than 24 hours.
Angulo was one of them Four people who lost their lives in the massacre At the high school located near Winder, Georgia, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.
Classmate Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimi, 53, also died in the Sept. 4 shooting.
The accused killers, 14-year-old Colt Gray and his father Collin, have both been taken into custody on charges of murder and culpable homicide and will next appear in court in December.
