(via 5 News)
Authorities say a South Carolina high school student doused himself in flammable liquid and set himself on fire, killing him.
Academic Magnet High School officials told WCSC-TV that a team of 45 grief counselors were on campus Friday to help students cope with the teen’s death.
Authorities say 16-year-old Aaron Williams doused his clothes with a flammable liquid Wednesday morning and ran toward the school’s doors. Dozens of teachers and students saw him on fire. Williams died a day later from the burns.
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Outside Academic Magnet High School the American flag flies at half staff as groups of students lay flowers at an empty parking space in remembrance of the teen who took his own life by setting himself on fire.
Students have also elected to dress in red in memoriam.
At a press conference Friday afternoon, the victim’s father said his son was a patient, generous and sensitive young man that the family wanted remembered by the way he lived his life, not how he ended it. Lt. Col. Trace Williams said his son’s lifelong passion was to become a doctor and help those who are struggling with illness and hardship the way his son Aaron did.
