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CLAWSON — Alexandria Verner was a loving daughter, a dedicated student, a competitive athlete and, from everyone who met her, a caring friend.

Use. and you use them, but we love al verner, class of 2020. clausen trojan. it was important for me to personalize it so people could feel it. understand her. know her. honor her. template aside. standard form letter aside. not the narrative of the coward that took her life, but the narrative of her as a human being and i wanted our community for those who knew her and didn't, to feel that. the family asked me, and i was honored to say yes, to speak on their behalf. honored and humbled and will forever be. i asked them how they wanted me to communicate to you all. they said and i quote, speak...

Who she was and the 20 years she lived walking that path of incredible, modest humility and integrity and kindness, which we all need to take a chapter out of al's book. >> billy, thank you for your time. you did her pretty well today by sharing some thoughts and memories of alex verner. thank you for the work you're doing and i know it's not easy. we heard from anna, who was a student at oxford, they told us we would be safe. and now they're going through it again. i just wonder what superintendents, principals, tell students now. billy, thank you so much. >> they're lucky to have you. thank ...

Thank so many of our clausen trojans and now spartys who we saw honoring al and give their story about where they were on monday night. and their experience that we were all going through from afar. we were blessed to see them yesterday and able to hug all of them, tell them how much we care about them and how great it was to see them after such a traumatic evening on the campus. >> as superintendent, i know you wrote a letter to the families of the 1300 students who are in your district. how do you put to words what has happened to the community? what did you say? >> it's impossible. i needed...

The high school that verner attended. i know you met alex when she played as a kind gaergartner ine youth basketball program you founded. and you had the privilege of watching her grow up. tell us about her? >> first of all, on behalf of the family and community -- we appreciate the opportunity today to talk about al and in 2008, 2009, to have the honor of meeting a young lady who would grow into what your daughter, your sister, any of your friends to be. what an honor for me. what an honor for us. and the impact she's had on each individual. myself included. in our community. the trojan commu...