Artist's heartbreaking tribute to hero teacher who died in Florida shooting
A comic book artist has created a touching tribute to a teacher who bravely gave his life trying to save students in last week’s Florida high school massacre.
Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach and security guard at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School, was one of 17 people killed on Wednesday when a gunman stormed the school and opened fire on children and adults.
In the wake of what was the worst school shooting since the Sandy Hook massacre, students revealed how Feis used his body to shield them from the gunfire.
After learning of his bravery, Canadian comic book artist Pia Guerra created a tribute to the heroic member of the school.
The bittersweet artwork shows Feis, dressed in black, being greeted in heaven by all the victims of previous school shootings.
A little girl can be seen saying "Come on Mister Feis, so many of us want to meet you".
The touching post quickly began to circulate across social media, where Guerra gave a simple explanation as to what she was trying to convey.
“That all these brave, beautiful, vibrant people should still be with us,” she wrote.
Former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, faces multiple murder charges in the deaths of 14 students and three staff members, and the wounding of more than a dozen others, in a rampage that eclipsed Columbine as the country's worst mass shooting at a high school.
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US students demand tighter gun controls
The students that survived the shooting on Monday focused their anger on US gun control laws and President Donald Trump, labelling his response to the attack as "needlessly divisive".
Trump was slammed on Saturday for laying blame on the Obama administration for not passing any gun control measures during the brief time they controlled Congress with a supermajority in the Senate.
Majory Stoneman Douglas High School survivors have now joined other students around the country, impacted by school gun violence, to plan a Washington march and a national walk-out aimed at getting the attention of an adult population many say has failed to protect them.
Among the students announcing the march was Emma Gonzalez, who captured worldwide attention with a powerful speech in which she assailed Trump over the multi-million-dollar support his campaign received from the gun lobby.
She vowed Stoneman Douglas school would be "the last mass shooting."
