Classmates, Others Mourn Loss of Teen Girl Killed on an Olney Street
By Tim Jimenez
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As police continue to investigate a shooting outside Einstein Hospital that left a fifteen-year-old girl dead, the young victim's school community is left to mourn.
Delaware Valley Charter High School sits just blocks away from where Aisha Abdur Rhaman was killed, at Broad and Olney. Her locker is now a memorial.
"Unbelieveable. Devastating," says school CEO Ernest Holiday (below). He says the community will remember Aisha as a great student, and much more than that.
"She wanted to be an actress, from what I gather, and she also wanted to play basketball. She was very well liked, very well liked by the school. Had a beautiful smile, a smile that lit up the hallway," he said today.
The walls in the school's hallways are now dotted with posters that students are signing with tributes to their fallen friend.
And these students are used to adversity. Back in January, two students were wounded as shots rang out in the school. Holiday says they've tightened security. But with Aisha losing her life just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, he says, nothing could have prepared them for this.
