A beloved football coach, who was among four victims killed in a high school shooting in Barrow County, Georgia, on Wednesday morning, was remembered as a "leader of men" who passed on the "old-school ways" of the game to the children he coached.

Ricky Aspinwall, a 39-year-old husband and father of two young daughters, taught math at Apalachee High School, where he was also the football team’s defensive coordinator. 

Mike Hancock, the school’s head football coach, told the Athens Banner-Herald that Aspinwall was "a great dad" who loved his wife and their two daughters and was also respected in the game of football.

"He worked his tail off," Hancock said. "He coached old-school ways, but he loved those kids. It's heartbreaking really for our kids, but for his wife and his two daughters…"

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Aspinwall was killed when the alleged 14-year-old shooter opened fire inside the school. Math teacher Christina Irimie and students Mason Shermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, were also killed. Authorities said nine others were wounded in the shooting.

The suspected shooter, a student at Apalachee High School, will be charged with murder and prosecuted as an adult, according to Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith.

Hancock said Aspinwall was one of his first hires when he took over the Apalachee football program last year. Aspinwall previously coached football at Mountain View High School. 

The Mountain View football program posted a tribute to Aspinwall on social media.

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"With deepest sympathy we share that former MV secondary coach Ricky Aspinwall was tragically lost during the senseless act at a nearby high school today," the post read. "Coach A was a beloved member of MVHS football and the school’s math department. We pray for Shayna and his girls."

The post shared a photo of Aspinwall, his wife and their two young daughters with the caption, "Coach Aspinwall was a leader of men, and a man you want to coach your kid. We love Coach A, and are praying for his wife Shayna and his girls at this time."

A GoFundMe has been set up to help Aspinwell's family.

"We are all in shock over the news that Ricky Aspinwall lost his life protecting his students," a post on the fundraiser read.

Local, state and federal law enforcement are continuing to investigate the shooting.

Fox News' Stepheny Price contributed to this report.

A violent transnational gang from Venezuela allegedly first gained a "stranglehold" on an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, late last year, according to a local report.

Tren de Aragua gang members took over the Whispering Pines Apartments in 2023, engaging in violent assaults, murder threats, extortion, child prostitution and strongarm tactics, Denver law firm Perkins Coie wrote to city leaders in a nine-page report obtained by CBS News Colorado.

The firm was hired to investigate the alleged gang takeover of the apartment building, the outlet said, and interviewed witnesses and reviewed video footage from the complex prior to issuing its report.

"The evidence we have reviewed indicates that gang members are engaging in flagrant trespass violations, assaults and battery, human trafficking and sexual abuse of minors, unlawful firearms possession, extortion, and other criminal activities, often targeting vulnerable Venezuelan and other immigrant populations," T. Markus Funk, a former U.S. Attorney, wrote in the letter.

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The firm interviewed the apartment complex’s property manager, who said "he had never seen anything remotely like the Tren De Aragua takeover of Whispering Pines in his entire career."

The property manager, who has 15 years of experience, told the firm that two gang members were arrested as they were "coming to kill him" over an apparent late rent payment.

He also detailed how the gang was collecting "rent" from residents, and allegedly stabbed one individual for refusing to pay. In June, the gang members approached the property manager with an offer to help him if he paid the gang 50% of what was collected in rent, the report said.

"This is our business plan," one gang member allegedly told a housekeeper who spoke to the firm. "If he [the property manager] doesn't like it, we'll fill him with bullets."

Vacant units at the apartment complex were used to host "parties" where the gang provides "drugs and child prostitution," the property manager told firm investigators, adding that "minors are a good source of money."

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Alleged gang activity in at least two apartment complexes in Aurora has sparked intense scrutiny in recent days after a surveillance video went viral showing heavily armed men kicking down an apartment door.

The Tren de Aragua is based mainly in Venezuela and has roughly 5,000 members between the South American country and the United States.

Last week, the Aurora Police Department refuted the claim that Tren de Aragua gang members had taken over one complex, The Edge at Lowry, though said that authorities were aware of the gang’s alleged criminal activity in the area.

The department announced a special task force appointed in August to help combat the presence of Tren de Aragua.

On Wednesday, police shared the names and photos of two documented Tren de Aragua gang members and two suspected members who were arrested in July for attempted murder.

Happy to see the @AuroraPD finally start to tell the truth and make arrests!" Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky wrote on X. "Aurora citizens deserve to feel safe!"

Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.