Christian Angulo, one of the four victims killed in Wednesday’s mass shooting at Apalachee High School, is remembered by his family as “very sweet and so caring.”
The 14-year-old was identified late Wednesday 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 his sister, Lisette Angulo, described Christian’s death as “so sudden and unexpected.”
“Unfortunately my baby brother was one of the victims of the school shooting at Apalachee High School. He was only 14 years old. 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 Thursday evening, the GoFundMe had raised over $113,000.
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 that he and three others were killed.
“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 Wednesday morning when the gunfire erupted.
“I was in the same hallway,” she said, choking back tears in front of her high school. “I heard everything.”
A funeral home’s sign was posted outside of Angulo’s home Thursday afternoon as a steady stream of mourners entered and exited through the front door. Cars lined the street next to his home. A neighbor came outside and told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the family would not be speaking to media.
Staff reporters Lexi Baker, Henri Hollis and Shaddi Abusaid contributed to this report.
