A heroic teacher who died while saving students during the school shooting last week gave his fiancée specific instructions should he die in a school shooting.
Scott Beigel, a native of Long Island, New York, was one of several teachers who was gunned down while protecting students on Feb. 14.
His fiancée Gwen Gossler said that she and Beigel were once watching television coverage of a school shooting when he told her, “Promise me if this ever happens to me, you will tell them the truth—tell them what a jerk I am, don’t talk about the hero stuff,” Gossler said at his funeral in Florida.
Beigel was a 35-year-old geography teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Beigel was in his classroom when Nikolas Cruz began gunning people down inside the school.
Kelsey Friend, a student, said that he saved her life.
“He was in the doorway and the door was still open and the shooter probably didn’t know we were in there because he was lying on the floor. If the shooter had come in the room, I probably wouldn’t be [alive].”
Friend said she is forever grateful to the teacher.
“If I could see him right now ... I'd give him a huge teddy bear to say thank you. But, unfortunately, I can’t do that,” she said.
“He loved going to camp, and he loved working with the kids,” she said. “He is 35 and he still goes there.”
The camp on Facebook called Beigel “Starlight’s beloved friend and hero.”
Robert Adler said on the social media website said that Beigel was a great person.
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