A high school volleyball coach was shot dead while enjoying an evening at a popular rooftop bar.
Ayden Rose Burt, 28, was struck in the back by a stray bullet just after midnight Tuesday at the Smoke Skybar in San Antonio, police said.
She was a coach and teacher at Jasper ISD and was visiting the city for the Texas High School Coaches Association conference.
Officers believe the shot was fired from a random vehicle outside the bar near Interstate 37, officials said. 12 News.
“She was a mentor to many and such a fun person to be around. She was also the best track and field coach,” one of Burt’s athletes said in a Facebook tribute.
Ayden Rose Burt, 28, was visiting San Antonio for the Texas High School Coaches Association Conference when she was killed
Burt was reportedly sitting on the upper deck of the popular downtown bar with her back to the highway when she was shot
Burt was reportedly sitting on the top deck of the popular downtown bar, with her back to the highway, when she was shot.
She was taken to hospital where she died from her injuries. Police said the shooting was random and they are working to bring justice to her family.
Jasper Independent School District John Seybold told SBG San Antonio Burt was the track and volleyball coach at Jasper County High School.
Seybold said Burt was attending an event sponsored by a vendor when she was killed.
She has worked for the school district for more than five years and recently announced on Facebook that she will be teaching English to K-12 students next school year after teaching high school.
I can’t thank the family that is there [Jasper Junior High School] “Enough for the teacher you made me, for the way you helped me grow as an individual, and for the endless love and support,” Burt said.
She was attending an event sponsored by a vendor at the popular downtown bar when the random shooting occurred
‘Working with some of my own former teachers, who later became lifelong mentors and friends, was truly an extraordinary adventure that I wouldn’t have missed for anything.
‘I am thrilled not only to have the opportunity to teach many of my former students again, but also to be teaching the course that made me fall in love with literature in the first place.’
Burt was beloved by the school district and the community called the teacher a “jewel.”
“I’m going to miss her. She was someone I saw every day, even if it was at school, or swat, she was someone who never let you down. I loved her so much, it doesn’t even seem real,” said one student.