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Atlanta Falcons to wear Apalachee High School T-shirts to honor community impacted by school shooting

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The Atlanta Falcons will wear Apalachee High School t-shirts to honor the community following the tragic school shooting.

NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo tweeted out a picture of the warmup shirts. They’re pretty slick.

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You can see Apalachee shirts below.

“The Falcons’ players will wear Apalachee High School Wildcats T-shirts during warmups today, in a show of support for the community just four days after the tragic shooting at the school,” Garafolo wrote on Twitter.

A 14-year-old student brought an assault-style rifle to school and opened fire on his peers and teachers, putting the school with an enrollment of about 1,900 squarely in the national spotlight. The shooting at Apalachee claimed the lives of two teaches and two students.

One of the victims was the school’s defensive coordinator, Ricky Aspinwall. Fondly referred to as ‘Coach A’ by his students, Aspinwall was a 39-year-old math teacher at the school.

“Waking up today… is a blessing to never be taken for granted again,” wrote the football program on its Facebook page. “Apalachee is not just our school it’s our home, it’s our community. Our team is crushed by the loss of Coach A. They are devastated knowing this happened at their school. Some of us knew the other victims and some of us didn’t but nonetheless they were Wildcats, they were family. Please pray for all the victims’ families. Yesterday was a horrific day at Apalachee and every single Wildcat was affected by this tragedy. … Please pray for our Wildcat family!”

The other three victims were teacher Christina Irimie and 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo.

Apalachee is about an hour’s drive to the northeast from Atlanta. At least nine other people, in addition to the four that were fatally shot, were wounded in the incident.

All were taken to hospitals with injuries but are expected to survive, according to a report from the Associated Press.

The alleged gunman was apprehended when two Apalachee High School resource officers encountered him just minutes after the report of shots fired went out. The suspect surrendered and was taken into custody, ending the threat.

But his surrender won’t take away the damage done or the lives lost, as the community of Apalachee High School now tries to pick up the pieces.

Thomas Goldkamp contributed to this story