Funeral arrangements have been made for Christian Angulo, one of the four victims killed in the Sept. 4 shooting at Apalachee High School. The 14-year-old is remembered by his family as “very sweet and so caring.”
At a candlelight vigil last week, the Angulo family invited the community to the upcoming services to honor Christian. Sara Schneider, the founder of a nonprofit specializing in bereavement counseling shared a message from Christian’s older sister Lisette.
“We miss my baby brother so much. Honestly, we don’t know how we’re going to navigate life without him. We just want him back,” read Schneider, on behalf of Lisette. “We’re trying to be strong for him, but we are hurting. We wish this never happened.”
Credit: arvin.temkar@ajc.com
Credit: arvin.temkar@ajc.com
He loved to play video games with his friends, loved to play soccer and was a kind and funny kid, she said.
The family has declined to speak to reporters.
A funeral service is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday, Sep. 20 at Saint Matthew Catholic Church in Winder, according to the church website. A vigil also is planned for 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19.
Christian was identified by the GBI as one of two students who died in the shooting near Winder in Barrow County. Two teachers also were killed.
A GoFundMe campaign set up by Lisette Angulo described Christian’s death as “so sudden and unexpected.”
“He was a very good kid and very sweet and so caring. He was so loved by many,” she wrote on the site. “He really didn’t deserve this.”
The donations will go toward paying for funeral expenses, she said. As of Wednesday morning, the GoFundMe had raised over $194,000.
Days after the shooting, Nicole Cabrera, 14, returned to campus with a friend to leave flowers and pay their respects to those killed. She had a fourth-period gym class with Angulo and said she was heartbroken.
“He was just a really nice person,” she said. “None of them deserved what happened to them. It’s so messed up.”
Cabrera was in a nearby classroom when the gunfire erupted.
“I was in the same hallway,” she said, choking back tears in front of her high school. “I heard everything.”
Staff reporters Lexi Baker, Henri Hollis and Shaddi Abusaid contributed to this report.
