A soccer coach has died heroically after using his body as a shield to protect a schoolgirl during a Florida high school massacre.
Aaron Feis was shot dead as he tried to stop Nikolas Cruz while spreading death among students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
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He was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died of his injuries.
"He died the same way he lived - he put himself in second place," he said the person in charge of the school football program and exphis face, Denise Lehtio.
"He was a very kind soul, a very good man, a hero died."
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Feis was the assistant coach of the team and also worked as a security guard at the school where he attended.
Feis was among 17 people killed when a former student, armed with a gun, opened fire at the school. It is a massacre, among the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history.