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. And right now they’re just trying to keep his family, his mom safe.” 
 
 A judge will soon decide if the teen should be tried as an adult. PHOTOS: Shooting at Kentucky high school 
 
 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. “She helped others… she was just so kindhearted and the most amazing kid anybody could ever ask for. 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. A girl claiming to be the teen’s stepsister took to Facebook to write: “He isn’t a monster…he is a kid who is hurting.” 
 
 While Conkwright is horrified by Tuesday’s events, he said he prefers the gunman’s name be withheld. 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. (WSMV) 
 
 While investigators will not release the identity of the shooter in the deadly massacre at Marshall County High School, witnesses tell News 4 they know who the gunman is because they saw him pull the trigger.
– 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.