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 BENTON, Ky. (WKRN) – A day after their daughter was shot and killed in a mass shooting at a Kentucky high school, the parents of 15-year-old Bailey Holt opened up about their heartbreak and revealed their feelings toward the accused student gunman. 
 
 Bailey’s mother told News 2 after learning about the shooting at Marshall County High School Tuesday morning from a friend she immediately began calling her daughter’s cell phone. 
 
 “We tried and tried to call her and she didn’t answer,” Secret Holt said. “It’s not like her not to answer or text back.” 
 
 Eventually, Bailey called her mother back, but the high school sophomore was unable to speak. 
 
 “She called me and all I could here was voices, chaos in the background. She couldn’t say anything and I tried to call her name over and over and over and she never responded. We rushed to the high school, and they wouldn’t let us get through,” Secret said. 
 
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 Bailey’s parents said they learned their daughter was killed in the shooting after she did not get off the buses used to transport students to a nearby school. 
 
 “We waited and waited for her to get off the buses and she never did. The principal at North Marshal came and got me, and took us outside and we got in a cop car and they took us to the fire department and told us what had happened,” Secret said. 
 
 The grieving parents told News 2 Bailey was the perfect daughter, and she was always putting others first. 
 
 “Even though she was 15, she had already decided her career was going to be a labor and delivery nurse,” her mother Secret said. “She helped others… she was just so kindhearted and the most amazing kid anybody could ever ask for. Her smile could light up the room.” 
 
 “She was perfect in every way,” Bailey’s father Jasen said. “She was an angel here on earth. She was a perfect angel. 
 
 As for their feelings toward the alleged student gunman who took their daughter’s life, the family said they are praying for him no matter how difficult that may be. 
 
 Her mother said, “It’s just so hard to believe that somebody in a split second could take two lives and injure so many in just a short amount of time. I don’t know if I can go to court and see him. I just don’t know if I can, but I want him to pay for everything he’s done. I also want to pray for him, too, because I know he’s probably having a hard time too, but he took our baby. He still took my baby from me.” 
 
 Bailey’s 15-year-old classmate, Preston Ryan Cope, also died from his injuries in the shooting. Eighteen others were injured. 
 
 The accused gunman, a 15-year-old student, remains in custody and has been charged with two counts of murder and 12 counts of attempted first. 
 
 “Whatever that kid had going through his mind, I don’t know. But if he needed a friend I know she would’ve been a friend to him and talked to him about anything he needed, because that’s just the kind of person she was,” Secret said. 
 
 Bailey’s family says they have had an overwhelming amount of community support and take comfort in knowing they are not going through this tragedy alone. 
 
 A fund was set up for the family at CFSB Bank–Bailey Holt Memorial Fund, C/O Shanna Wood. 
 
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 Two students were killed Tuesday and 18 other people were wounded when a 15-year-old boy armed with a handgun opened fire inside a Kentucky high school, authorities said. 
 
 Terrified students ditched their backpacks and scrambled to get away, and within minutes of the shots' having been fired, sheriff's deputies were at Marshall County High School in Benton, where they disarmed the student and took him into custody, officials said. 
 
 But it was too late to save Bailey Nicole Holt, 15, who died at the scene, and Preston Ryan Cope, 15, who died later at a trauma center, Kentucky State Police Commissioner Richard Sanders said early Tuesday night. 
 
 Sixteen of the wounded were injured by gunfire and the four others were hurt while trying to escape, state police said Tuesday night, revising Sanders' earlier report that 14 people were shot. Three of the victims were listed in critical condition Tuesday night at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 "In addition to those family members that have lost loved ones, that have had loved ones injured or hurt or traumatized, we pray for these people," Sanders said. 
 
 Authorities declined to identify the suspect or discuss a possible motive, but Sanders said he would likely face two counts of murder and "numerous" counts of attempted murder.The FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also joined the investigation. 
 
 Bailey Holt, one of the victims of the Marshall County High School shooting in Kentucky. 
 
 The small town was in shock as teachers and counselors tried to calm terrified students who described the chaos in the classrooms when the bullets started flying at 7:57 a.m. (8:57 a.m. ET), shortly after the shooter entered the school's common area, according to Sanders. 
 
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 Two minutes later, dispatchers got the first 911 call, he said, and police were on scene by 8:06 a.m. The suspect was taken into custody almost immediately by the first officer on the scene, he said. 
 
 "They were busting down the gates and fences just to get out," Shea Thompson, whose teenage siblings were inside the school when the shooting started, told NBC News. 
 
 Greg Rodgers, 17, a junior, said that when he arrived at school, he saw students racing out of the building. 
 
 "I pulled off to the side of the road because everyone was running to the main road," Greg said. "I asked my friend what was going on, and he told me that there was a school shooting. I was shocked. He said that someone had just shot up the school." 
 
 Greg said the suspect opened fire as students were heading to classes. 
 
 "I'm distraught from all of it. I couldn't really focus driving home," he said. "I was shaking a lot driving back to my house. I'm still shaking." 
 
 Thompson said her 15-year-old brother, Shawn, a freshman, called her from the school in "a complete panic" around 8:02 a.m. 
 
 "He was yelling: 'Someone's shooting! Someone's shooting!," said Thompson, 26, of Benton. 
 
 Thompson said her 16-year-old sister, Kristin, a sophomore, was in the common area near the cafeteria. She said Kristin told her that a bullet pierced her friend's backpack but that the friend wasn't hurt. 
 
 Clyde Lee was at North Marshall Middle School waiting to collect Isaac Robinson, his nephew, a sophomore who was being bused there from the high school. He said he had just learned that a young girl they know was badly wounded. 
 
 "There are a lot of parents crying," Lee said. "It's a very bad situation here. We had a family friend who was shot in the chest. We don't have any other information on her condition." 
 
 Emergency crews respond to Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, after a fatal school shooting Tuesday. Ryan Hermens / The Paducah Sun via AP 
 
 Lee said he never imagined "something like this happening in such a small town" like Benton. 
 
 "No one should have to go through something like this," he said. 
 
 Benton is a city of about 4,300 residents in western Kentucky, about 120 miles northwest of Nashville. It is also about 40 miles southeast of West Paducah, Kentucky, where a 14-year-old student at Heath High School opened fired in 1997, killing three people and wounding five others as they were praying. 
 
 The shooting Tuesday came a day after a 15-year-old girl was wounded at Italy High School in Texas after someone opened fire inside the cafeteria. No motive was immediately given. 
 
 "Our nation's schools should be some of the safest spaces in our communities," said Gabby Giffords, the former congresswoman-turned-activist, who noted that there have been 13 mass shootings already this year. "And it's only January." 
 
 CORRECTION (Jan. 24, 7:20 pm ET): An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. It is in Nashville, Tennessee, not Knoxville.
– Bailey Holt was one of two 15-year-olds killed in Tuesday's school shooting in Benton, Ky., and her anguished mother describes a final phone call—one that was both full of clamor and silent. Secret Holt tells WKRN that after she heard there was a shooting she started calling her daughter's phone; Bailey didn't answer. Then, the phone rang. "She called me and all I could hear was voices, chaos in the background. She couldn't say anything and I tried to call her name over and over and over and she never responded." Holt said she learned her daughter—an "amazing" kid who wanted to be a labor and delivery nurse—had been killed after waiting for her to get off the buses that took the student body to another school. Bailey never emerged, and the Marshall County High School principal approached Bailey's parents and officials broke the news. Meanwhile, the Courier Journal reports prosecutors say they will ask a judge to move the unnamed shooter's case from juvenile to adult court. In addition to the murder charges against him, the 15-year-old faces 12 counts of first-degree assault, which Assistant County Attorney Jason Darnall explains is "a little easier to prove than attempted murder" but carries the same penalty. If the teen is charged as an adult, his name would be released, reports WSMV, which highlights the oddity of his name being kept under wraps while at the same time being an "open secret" in Marshall County.