‘Richard Aspinwall, a math teacher, heard commotion outside his classroom and entered the hallway to see what was going on. When he did, he was shot in the chest by the 14-year-old suspect, according to family friend Julie Woodson, who cited accounts by Aspinwall’s students.
“We had to watch our teacher come back in the classroom holding himself like he’s been shot, and fell to the floor,” 17-year-old Malasia Mitchell said. “And as he kept going, my teacher was shot again.”
Students in the class say they pulled Aspinwall back into the classroom and used the shirts off their backs to try and stop their teacher’s bleeding, according to Woodson.
Meanwhile, the students closed the door and protected themselves with desks and chairs, Mitchell said.
Woodson said Aspinwall “died as a hero trying to save his students’ lives.”’
September 7th, 2024 at 1:16PM
I’m a teacher. We practice these freaking drills.
Vance shrugged his shoulders. What a coward.
September 7th, 2024 at 2:25PM
Vance’s comment was disgusting but no surprise.
Going out to the hall to see what was happening doomed the math teacher. A simple, human, reaction; and one we have to be trained out of.
September 7th, 2024 at 6:56PM
I’m sure you don’t mean it that way, but that sounds like “blame the victim.” What doomed this man was the fearmongering immorality of political decision makers, our crazy gun culture, and the greed of gun manufacturers.
The solution to this isn’t: “train people not to look into a hallway.” I’m not going to shape my behavior and interactions with my kids and colleagues with the expectation of being gunned down at random.
I don’t have much faith that the drills we are taught will be that effective in the event of an actual shooting.
September 7th, 2024 at 7:02PM
Vance is like the villagers in the Lottery. A community participates in human sacrifice.
September 7th, 2024 at 7:56PM
Sorry if it sounded that way; I meant only to deepen the point you and I are both making – our gun-soaked world perverts our most basic human instincts.