“I wish it were a dream”

The devastated mother of one of the 14-year-old students killed in the Apalachee High School shooting has recalled her last morning with her son.

“He hugged his father and me – I will always carry that in my heart,” Emma Angulo told Univision, sometimes struggling to keep her composure as she thought of her son, Christian Angulo.

She said the freshman from Apalachee was a sweet boy with big ambitions for the future.

“He was only 14 years old. They took away his whole life, his future and his time with us,” she told his killer’s broadcaster.

“He didn’t deserve this. He didn’t deserve to die like that,” she said, adding: “I miss him. For me, it’s like… I wish it had been a dream.”

His friends remembered the teenager as “laid-back” and good at making people laugh, Fox 5 Atlanta said.

A friend, Abner Sanz, told the outlet that he has known Angulo since middle school.

“I started asking other people if it was true that he had died because I just wanted to know. I just didn’t want to believe it because you would never believe that someone you know would just die like that,” he said.

On a GoFundMe page raising money for funeral expenses, Angulo’s older sister Lisette paid loving tribute to her brother.

“He was a very good boy, very sweet and so caring. Many loved him so much. His loss came so suddenly and unexpectedly,” wrote the grieving sibling.

“We are deeply heartbroken. He really didn’t deserve this.”

The original fundraising goal of $30,000 was doubled in less than 24 hours.

Angulo was one of four victims who lost their lives in the massacre at the high school near Winder, Georgia, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.

Also killed in the Sept. 4 shooting were 14-year-old classmate Mason Schermerhorn and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53.

Accused of being a killer, Colt Gray, 14, and his father Colin are both being held on charges of murder and manslaughter and will be back in court in December.