The Sept. 4 attack killed two students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and two teachers, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53. An Apalachee High School teacher posted a heartfelt thanks on social media to students and a faculty member who helped save his life after a mass shooting at his Georgia school.

In the moments after he was shot, math teacher Richard Aspinwall was “trying to crawl back to” his students, even as sounds of gunfire continued to echo through the halls of Apalachee High School. Stephanie Reyna and Bryan Maldonado,

A special education math teacher who was seriously injured in the deadly mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia expressed his “everlasting gratitude” toward two teens who helped stop his bleeding after he was shot.