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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. 
 
 Click here for complete coverage of the Marshall County High School shooting. ||||| A grief-stricken, Kentucky community has united together after a deadly school shooting killed two students and injured 18 others. 
 
 A grief-stricken, Kentucky community has united together after a deadly school shooting killed two students and injured 18 others. 
 
 The alleged gunman was taken into custody after the shooting. (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. 
 
 The 15-year-old student faces two counts of murder and twelve counts of assault in the first degree. Prosecutors intend to charge the teen as an adult, according to Assistant Marshall County Attorney Jason Darnall. 
 
 But the reality is, when the shooting started Tuesday morning, there were students who witnessed it. 
 
 In the midst of the nightmare that unfolded at Marshall County High School, Bryson Conkwright saw someone open fire, then ran for his life. 
 
 Later, when Conkwright, 18, saw a photo of the suspected shooter, Conkwright identified him immediately. 
 
 “When I saw this kid’s face, I just knew it was him,” Conkwright said. “I remember seeing his lifeless, empty eyes just...pulling the trigger. He didn't even flinch.” 
 
 Law enforcement’s decision to withhold the shooter’s name follows the hard line drawn by Kentucky law that juvenile offenders cannot be identified. 
 
 His name will not be released unless he is charged as an adult. To the nation, he remains unknown for now. 
 
 But in a town of just more than 4,000 people still reeling from a mass shooting, witnesses said they saw the gunman and know exactly who he is. 
 
 “When there’s this many people that’s seen it and knows this happened, I mean, it’s kind of hard to justify the fact of not saying it’s him,” Conkwright said. 
 
 The 15-year-old student, identified as the shooter by witnesses, had social medial accounts that were deactivated not long after the shooting. 
 
 The News 4 I-Team obtained those accounts. 
 
 Photos show the teen played instruments, traveled to places like Nashville, Florida and Puerto Rico, and enjoyed fireworks. 
 
 His most recent Instagram post from July referenced the Marine Corps doctrine, “The Rifleman’s Creed.” 
 
 The student’s profile also included a quote from Joseph Stalin: “I trust no one, not even myself.” 
 
 Within hours of the shooting, friends and family rushed to defend him on social media. 
 
 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. 
 
 “I understand....right now he’s a suspect," Conkwright said. 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. 
 
 After that, the district attorney’s office will bring the case to the Marshall County Grand Jury on February 13. 
 
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– 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.