Grieving
family
and
friends
recalled
the
endearing
qualities
of some
of the
victims
of
Friday’s
mass
shooting
at a
Texas
high
school,
as
authorities
on
Saturday
released
the
names of
the 10
killed.
Eight of
the 10
were
students:
Kimberly
Vaughan,
Shana
Fisher,
Angelique
Ramirez,
Christian
Riley
Garcia,
Jared
Black,
Sabika
Sheikh,
Christopher
Jake
Stone
and
Aaron
Kyle
McLeod.
The
other
two,
Glenda
Perkins
and
Cynthia
Tisdale,
were
teachers.
At
least 13
people
were
injured
in the
attack
at the
high
school
in Santa
Fe,
which is
about 30
miles
(50
kilometers)
southeast
of
Houston.
A
17-year-old
student,
Dimitrios
Pagourtzis,
is being
held on
murder
charges.
Here
are some
of the
victims’
stories:
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SHANA
FISHER
The
mother
of
16-year-old
Shana
Fisher
believes
that her
daughter
was
intentionally
targeted
by
Pagourtzi.
Sadie
Rodriguez
said
Pagourtzis
repeatedly
made
advances
toward
Fisher
in the
four
months
leading
up to
the
shooting.
Pagourtzis
was an
ex-boyfriend
of
Fisher’s
best
friend,
she
said.
“He
kept
making
advances
on her
and she
repeatedly
told him
no,”
said
Rodriguez
over
Facebook
Messenger.
“He
continued
to get
more
aggressive.”
Rodriguez
said
that the
week
before
the
shooting,
Fisher
“stood
up to
him” by
“embarrass(ing)
him in
class.”
Rodriguez
gave no
other
details.
Rodriguez
described
her
daughter
as “shy
and
sweet”
with a
passion
for
video
games.
Rodriguez
shared a
video of
Fisher
from
2015, in
which
the teen
contemplates
whether
or not
she’ll
continue
making
gaming
videos
because
her
computer
keeps
crashing.
The
day of
the
shooting,
Rodriguez
wrote in
a
Facebook
status
to “love
like
(you’re)
getting
one more
day with
them.”
“Anything
can
happen,”
she
wrote.
“I will
no
longer
get to
see my
baby my
1st born
anymore.”
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CHRIS
STONE
Stone
was
among a
group of
students
who
blocked
the door
to try
to
prevent
the
gunman
from
entering
their
art
classroom,
freshman
Abel San
Miguel,
who was
in the
class,
told The
Associated
Press.
The
shooter
fired
his
shotgun
through
the
door,
though,
striking
Stone in
the
chest,
he said.
Stone
was
outgoing,
“really
funny”
and had
a lot of
friends,
said
Branden
Auzston,
a
17-year-old
junior
at Santa
Fe High.
He said
he knew
Stone
for
about
three
years,
and
Stone
was one
of his
best
friends.
Auzston’s
mother,
Nicole
Auzston,
described
Stone as
a part
of her
family.
“We
would
have
done
anything
for
him,”
she
said.
“He’s
just a
great
kid.”
Robert
Stone
told the
AP by
phone
Saturday
that his
family
was
grieving
his
nephew’s
death
and
requested
privacy.
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SABIKA
SHEIKH
Abdul
Aziz
Sheikh
was
expecting
his
daughter
Sabika
to
return
home to
Pakistan
in a few
weeks
for Eid
al-Fitr,
the
three-day
holiday
marking
the end
of the
Muslim
holy
month of
Ramadan.
Instead,
he
learned
that his
oldest
child
was
among
those
killed
in the
mass
shooting
at Santa
Fe High
School,
where
Sabika
arrived
as an
exchange
student
last
August.
Surrounded
by
mourning
friends
and
family
at his
home in
Karachi
on
Saturday,
Abdul
Aziz
Sheikh
fought
back
tears as
he
relived
his
frantic
efforts
to check
whether
his
daughter
was safe
half a
world
away.
She
wasn’t
returning
his
calls
and
neither
were her
friends.
He
eventually
learned
from the
exchange
program
that she
was
among
the
dead.
“We
are
still in
a state
of
denial.
We can’t
believe
it. It’s
like a
nightmare,”
Sheikh
told The
Associated
Press.
He
said his
daughter
was a
hard-working
and
accomplished
student
who
aspired
to work
in civil
service,
hoping
one day
to join
Pakistan’s
Foreign
Office.
“One
should
not lose
his
heart by
such
kind of
incidents,”
he said.
“One
should
not stop
going
for
education
to the
U.S. or
U.K., or
China,
or
anywhere.
One must
go for
education
undeterred.
But
controlling
such
incidents
is the
responsibility
of the
respective
governments.”
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CYNTHIA
TISDALE
Leia
Olinde
said
Tisdale,
her aunt
and a
substitute
teacher
at the
school,
was like
a mother
to her
and
helped
her shop
for
wedding
dresses
last
year.
“She
helped
me put
it on,
she
helped
fix my
hair,”
Olinde
said
through
tears.
“She
was
wonderful.
She was
just so
loving,”
said
Olinde,
25.
“I’ve
never
met a
woman
who
loved
her
family
so
much.”
She
said
Tisdale
was
married
to her
husband
for
close to
40 years
and that
they had
three
children
and
eight
grandchildren.
Tisdale’s
house
was the
center
of
family
gatherings
and she
loved
cooking
Thanksgiving
dinner
and
decorating
her
house,
Olinde
said.
Olinde’s
fiance,
Eric
Sanders,
said of
Tisdale
that
“words
don’t
explain
her lust
for life
and the
joy she
got from
helping
people.”
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AARON
KYLE
MCLEOD
McLeod,
a
freshman
who went
by Kyle,
could
always
be
counted
on to
make
light of
any
situation,
said
close
friend
Kali
Reeves,
who
added
she
wouldn’t
have
been
surprised
if the
15-year-old
“made a
joke
about
getting
shot” if
he were
still
alive.
Reeves,
15, said
she knew
McLeod
for
years
and
became
close
friends
with him
in the
eighth
grade.
She said
he
always
had a
smile on
his face
and
loved to
hang out
with his
friends.
“He
was
never
one to
be a sad
or down
person,
he
always
had to
joke or
laugh
about
things,”
she
said.
“He was
just
outgoing
and
super
sweet.
He
definitely
didn’t
deserve
this.”
Reeves
heard
that her
friend
had been
shot as
she was
evacuating
Santa Fe
High
School.
She
joked to
her
boyfriend
that if
she
FaceTimed
McLeod,
he would
have
“made a
joke
about
him
getting
shot,”
adding
that “he
just
always
looked
on the
bright
side of
things.”
Reeves
said she
texted
McLeod
throughout
the day
to check
up on
him. She
sent him
one
final
text,
saying
she
hopes he
“gets
better.”
Shortly
after,
she
checked
Facebook
and
learned
he was
one of
the 10
killed.
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JOHN
BARNES
School
police
officer
John
Barnes
was shot
in the
arm when
he
confronted
the
gunman.
A
bullet
damaged
the bone
and a
major
blood
vessel
around
Barnes’
elbow,
which
required
surgery
to
repair,
said
David
Marshall,
chief
nursing
officer
at the
University
of Texas
Medical
Branch.
Barnes
was the
first to
engage
Pagourtzis,
according
to
Marshall.
Walter
Braun,
the
school
district’s
chief of
police,
said
Saturday
that the
last he
had
heard,
Barnes
was in
critical
condition.
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ROME
SHUBERT
Sophomore
baseball
player
Rome
Shubert
said the
gunman
walked
into his
classroom
and
tossed
something
onto
desks.
Shubert
told the
Houston
Chronicle
that he
then
heard
“three
loud
pops”
before
the
attacker
fled
into the
hall.
Shubert
said he
realized
he’d
been
wounded
as he
was
running
out the
back
door.
Shubert
said he
was hit
in the
back of
his head
with
what he
says was
a
bullet,
but that
it
“missed
everything
vital.”
He also
tweeted
that he
was OK
and
stable.
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Zimmerman
reported
from
Springfield,
Illinois.
Associated
Press
writers
Sudhin
Thanawala
in San
Francisco
and
Amanda
Lee
Myers in
Los
Angeles
contributed
to this
report.
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This
story
has been
corrected
to fix
the
spelling
of the
suspect’s
name in
the
first
segment.