Clovis Police said Tuesday two women killed in a shooting inside a public library Monday worked there.
16 year-old Nathaniel Ray Jouett was arrested as a suspect.
Clovis High School Senior Gabriel Garcia said he was too afraid to go to school the day after the shooting, because he recognized the suspect as a classmate.
“There was a bunch of messages floating around everywhere, there was a Facebook group that actually got taken down, or they deleted it I’m not sure,” Garcia said, “There was a YouTube channel with all kinds of videos. It was all just kind of stacked on top of each other, and I just didn’t want to risk it.”
Police said Jouett used two guns when he opened fire inside the library, killing library workers Krissie Carter and Wanda Walters, and hurting four other people.
Chelsea Jorde and Evie Fisher said their mother, Krissie, was a librarian.
“She didn’t take a single day for granted. She loved her life, she loved our dad more than anything…” Jorde and Fisher said, “It’s a very, very difficult time…very difficult situation.”
Police patrolled the high school and said there was no real threat, and no truth to the rumors circulating online.
The other kids at school said they saw Jouett in a fight that may have led to his suspension.
“This kid started talking bad stuff to each other, and then they started fighting, and then the teacher just separate them,” Saul Bejarano said, “That’s pretty much just it…and then after that, the other student left and…I don’t know…they just took the other kid to the office and that was it.”
Carter’s daughters said they want the community to remember their mother as a bright light rather than a victim.
“She’s just smiling down on us, and is so proud of the strength our community has been showing. And I know that she’d just want everything to go back to normal as fast as possible,” Jorde and Fisher said, “She wants us to feel comfort and strength…and keep spreading the light that she spread to everybody that she looked at at the library.”
