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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Georgia teacher was trying to protect his students when he was killed, witnesses say

people lay flowers at a memorial
A makeshift memorial outside Apalachee high school for the victims of a shooting in Winder, Georgia, on Thursday. Photograph: Robin Rayne/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Richard Aspinwall, the mathematics teacher and football coach who was one of two teachers killed in Wednesday’s high school shooting in Georgia, was trying to protect the children in his classroom when he was killed.

His attempt to protect the teens in his care was one of the new details that have emerged about the four victims killed in the gun rampage by a student at Apalachee high school, in the small city of Winder.

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