Texas School Shooting: Community Honors The Santa Fe Victims

SANTA FE, TX — The schools are closed in Santa Fe ISD, but students and staff members in the district were at the campus of Santa Fe High School on Monday morning to honor those killed in a mass shooting at the school on Friday.

Mourners gathered around 10 white crosses that stand in honor of those who were murdered in the latest mass school shooting.

On Sunday, Gov. Greg Abbott called for a statewide moment of silence to honor the memory of those who were killed.

"The act of evil that occurred in Santa Fe has deeply touched the core of who we are as Texans," Abbott said. “In the midst of such tragedy, we pray for the victims and those mourning in Santa Fe, while we work to ensure swift and meaningful action to protect our students in schools across our state. I ask all Texans to join in holding a moment of silence tomorrow morning to remember the victims, their families, and first responders of the attack that took place at Santa Fe High School."

The students and teachers killed in the horrific rampage include:

• Christian Riley Garcia
• Sabika Sheikh
• Angelique Ramirez
• Cynthia Tisdale
• Ann Perkins
• Chris Stone
• Shana Fisher
• Kimberly Jessica Vaughan
• Aaron Kyle McLeod
• Jared Black

On Sunday, mourners and friends remembered Sheikh at a memorial service at the Brand Lane Islamic Center in Stafford.

Sheikh, who aspired for a business career, was an exchange student through the Youth Exchange & Study Program, and had been expected to return home to Pakistan after the school year, which ends in two weeks.

"We both became very close. She was the most beautiful, loving person I've ever met," Sheikh's host sister Jalon Cogburn told KPRC.

Services for the other victims are expected to take place this week.

Her body was returned to her family on Sunday for burial.

The suspected shooter, identified as 17-year-old Dimitrious Pagourtz, is being held in the Galveston County Jail without bond.

Image: : Residents attend a prayer vigil to remember the victims from the Santa Fe High School shooting at Walter Hall Park on May 20, 2018, in League City, Texas. Last Friday, 17-year-old student Dimitrios Pagourtzis entered the school with a shotgun and a pistol and opened fire, killing 10 people, authorities said. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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