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Georgia teacher was trying to protect his students when he was killed, witnesses say
Students say that Richard Aspinwall left his classroom after the shooting started to try to protect them
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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