Texas School Shooting: 'Most Beautiful, Loving Person' Remembered

STAFFORD, TX — The first of the 10 victims of the massacre at Santa Fe High School was remembered in a memorial service on Sunday. The service for Sabika Sheikh, 17, was Sunday 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.

The other students and teachers killed in the rampage include:

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

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

After the service, Sheikh's body transported to Bush Intercontinental Airport to be returned to her family in Pakistan.

Image: MAY 20: Host family members of Sabika Sheikh are comforted following a funeral prayer service at the Brand Lane Islamic Center on May 20, 2018 in Stafford, Texas. Sheikh, an exchange student from Pakistan, was killed last Friday when 17-year-old fellow student Dimitrios Pagourtzis entered Santa Fe High School with a shotgun and a pistol and opened fire, killing her and 9 other people, authorities said. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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