“I have no idea what she was thinking. Jeffrey Hamburg, Barbara Beach Hamburg, Ali Hamburg, and Madison Hamburg in a family photo. “I don’t know what was going through mind,” Willis said. And despite her injuries, Kimberley also returned Friday to comfort her students. They drew pictures and talked about their feelings, Willis said. Principal Nancy Willis said teacher’s aides go through the same extensive background checks as regular teachers.Īt the school Friday, teachers and counselors consoled the 17 students from Kimberley’s class who came to school.
But in October, she was hired to work as a teacher’s aide, a position that required her to work closely with children with special needs. Acierno spent a few months at Daytona Beach Community College’s campus in Flagler County before applying to be a media aide with Flagler County schools, records show. Her career plans appeared to have changed. “I always admired the way she’d hold onto situations and take control,” Agnesine said.Īn academic overachiever who twice made the dean’s list at Cornell, Acierno had planned to be a lawyer. Anthony Church in New York City, Sister Agnesine said Acierno helped children learn about the Bible. Please just respect our privacy,” he asked.įamily friends described Acierno as pleasant and quiet, with a love for books and playing with children. “I just couldn’t picture her taking her own life or harming another person.”Īt Acierno’s family home in Painters Hill, nestled between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean, a teary-eyed man who answered the door did not want to comment. That big move from New York to Florida, she might not have been able to handle it,” said family friend Barbara Davis from New York. “The difference between homicide and just a suicide would have been 30 minutes,” Manfre said.Īcierno worked in a separate classroom, far removed from the one she hit with her car, and teachers and school officials said there was no bad blood between Acierno and Kimberley or her students.įamily friends in her native New York City said Acierno had left Cornell University in upstate New York after two years to be with her father, stepmother and two half-siblings, who moved to Flagler County last year.
Sheriff Jim Manfre on Friday called Acierno’s suicide statements to witnesses at the scene “self-serving,” noting that the incident happened a half-hour before school was out and students gone.
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Meanwhile, investigators, friends and former colleagues of Acierno tried to answer why a woman who people called an introvert would ram her car into a classroom full of children. On Friday, school officials were trying to put their broken school back together and allay fears of students. Though she initially will be charged with three counts of attempted murder, Manfre said it would be increased to 27 at a later date. She will be arrested as soon as she is released, which Manfre said is expected today. On Friday, Acierno was at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, where, under the watch of an armed Flagler deputy, she is being treated for head injuries and was listed in stable condition. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office plans to charge the 19-year-old Acierno with three counts of attempted murder - one charge for each person seriously injured in the incident: Kimberley and two students. The car came crashing through a wall covered with green sea-foam paper decorated with bright-yellow stars that said “Reach for the Stars.” Flagler County Sheriff Jim Manfre said a steel beam prevented the car from traveling too far into the classroom, keeping the injury count down.
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