Victim Of Mass Shooting Calls Parents As She Is Dying But When They Rush To School They Can’t Find Her

January 23 is a significant date for Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, in fact, the school will never be the same again. According to the latest report, the mass shooting took the lives of 2 students and left at least 18 injured.

Bailey Holt, 15,  and Preston Ryan Cope, 15, are the two students who unfortunately did not survive the devastating event. Just days after the horror, Bailey’s parents, Secret and Jasen Holt open up about the heartbreaking day that shattered their lives forever.

Secret recalls frantically calling her daughter with sunken heart hoping to hear her voice and be reassured that she is fine, but couldn’t get to her. Her hopes were restored, but short-lived, when dying Bailey called her mother. Unfortunately, she was unable to speak.

“She called me and all I could hear was voices, chaos in the background,” Secret recalled.

“She couldn’t say anything and I tried to call her name over and over and over and she never responded.”

The shooter is another student and his identity had not yet been revealed, but he has been charged as an adult with two counts of murder and 12 counts of first-degree assault.

“I don’t know if I can go to court and see him,” Secret admitted. “I just don’t know if I can, but I want him to pay for everything he’s done.”

“I also want to pray for him, too, because I know he’s probably having a hard time too, but he took our baby,” she continued. “He still took my baby from me.”

Despite the heartbreak and devastation, Bailey’s family believes that is she could express one last wish, it would be for them to forgive the shooter.

“She would absolutely tell us all to stop all the fuss, not to be angry, forgive him and pray for his mom,” said Bailey’s aunt, Tracy Tubbs. “She would, in a heartbeat, stand by those words.”

“She would not have an angry bone in her body,” Tubbs expressed. “She would rather us turn our pain into something good, and that’s the best way we are going to represent her life.”

h/t: liftable