ROCHESTER, N.Y. — East High Superintendent Dr. Shaun Nelms says Jaquayla Young, one of the victims of the Saturday morning mass shooting on Pennsylvania Avenue in Rochester, touched the lives of so many teachers and so many classmates. 

He says she was cheer team captain, and a student ambassador who was always happy to show of East High to visitors. 

She wanted to be a teacher and even after graduation and was still back at East High to help with homecoming.

"It is something you just can’t believe. No death makes sense but when you lose someone so innocent and who is doing everything right..good grades, positive in the school community, helpful with her peers and giving back to the school community after she graduates as an alum... to have her leave this earth so soon is heart-wrenching. I’ll be honest I am struggling today and many of us are and we hope that we can heal together. My heart truly goes out to her and her family and to the entire East staff and community," said Nelms.

Nelms says so many people are affected by this mass shooting. East High will be open Sunday and Monday from 9 a.m. to noon for students to come in to grieve, to talk, and to find a way to deal with such a tragedy in a city that is already in such a troubling time.