An abettor football drillmaster is getting hailed as a hero afterwards he was fatally attempt while aggravating to assure acceptance during the cutting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Top Academy on Wednesday.

Aaron Feis, who was aswell a aegis bouncer at the school, stepped in foreground of acceptance to absorber them from the alive shooter, but did not survive his injuries, according to a cheep from the Florida top school’s football team.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel accepted Feis’ afterlife at a columnist appointment on Thursday and said he accomplished with him and his sons played football for him.

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“The kids in this association admired him. They adored him. He was one of the greatest humans I knew. He was a astounding man,” he said during a account appointment Thursday. “When Aaron Feis died, if he was dead — tragically, atrociously — he did it attention others. You can agreement that because that’s who Aaron Feis was.”

Feis is one of the aboriginal victims called in the cutting that dead 17 people. Nikolas Cruz, 19, is answerable with 17 counts of advised murder. Cruz allegedly acclimated an AR-15 semi-automatic burglarize with assorted magazines in the shooting.

Feis was an alum of the academy and played football there as a student, admission with the chic of 1999, according to the school’s website. He spent his absolute apprenticeship career there and aswell acted as the academy recruiting coordinator for the team, the website says.

Coach Feis leaves abaft one babe and his wife in Coral Springs, Fla., according to the school.