They said their daughter dreamed of visiting Germany, so she taught herself the language. "Carmen was a dreamer," her parents said. "We loved that she never outgrew our hugs and would hug us before she went to bed," they wrote. Schentrup was "mature beyond her years," her parents said, yet "still a kid at heart." She played piano, violin and guitar and also sang in the church choir. The teen "devoured books" and loved art and music, the family said. The precocious teenager was a National Merit Finalist, though she never knew it, as the award came the day after she was killed, her parents said.Īccepted to the University of Florida honors program, she "was exuberant to begin her college experience," her parents said, so she could "become a medical scientist and discover a cure for horrible diseases, like ALS." Alaina Petty, 14Ĭarmen Schentrup, a dedicated, accomplished and straight-A student "was going to change the world," her parents said in a statement on Facebook. "So Change the Ref is looking for the right ref to make the right calls, that he has to be impartial, he cannot have any connection or any kind of personal interest with any one of the teams," he said.
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Joaquin was frustrated by a series of bad calls a referee had made in a basketball game, which inspired the father and son to call the recreational league and ask to have the ref switched out.Īfter his son's death, Manuel Oliver said politicians didn't want to discuss gun control, which he described as the victims' parents' main issue. Manuel Oliver said the nonprofit's name came from a conversation he had with his son a few months before he died. The Olivers later started a nonprofit organization called Change the Ref, a platform inspired by their son in part to educate and empower youth in the movement to end gun violence. The teen was buried in NBA player Dwyane Wade's jersey.
"I said, 'Love you.' And he gave me a kiss, 'I love you too.' And I told him, just make sure you call me to see how did it go with the flowers," Manuel Oliver told ABC News' "Nightline" months after the shooting. The teen took extra time getting dressed for school the next morning and proudly held her flowers and card in the car when his father drove him to school. The night before Joaquin Oliver was killed at school, his father, Manuel Oliver, took his son to buy Valentine's Day flowers for his girlfriend. "He would bring us food for all our tournaments and take care of us like we were his own children and just watch over us, let us learn about life lessons." Luke Hoyer, 15 "He was such a sweet guy," wrestler Ray Corniel said, according to the newspaper. "Coach Hixon, for me, was a father figure," said wrestler Karlos Valentin, the Sun Sentinel reported. He put the needs of everyone else before his own." "If you needed anything - a cup of sugar in the middle of the night, he would bring it to you," Coral Springs High School athletic director Dan Jacob told ABC News. When his wife, Debbie Hixon, heard about the shooting, she said she knew he'd try to save his students' lives. Navy reservist who had been deployed to Iraq, according to WPLG. He died running toward the shooting, The Associated Press reported.Ī Broward County athletic director of the year, Hixon was also a U.S. Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via APĬhris Hixon, the school's athletic director and head wrestling coach, was described as a role model and loving father.
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