“How blessed I am to have had 17 years with a wonderful child, a wonderful son, wonderful guy. Throughout the tears, confusion, and pain, Rochelle Wilson said she is grateful for their time together. “His brother is torn to pieces and his sister is just devastated,” Rochelle Wilson said, noting that the siblings were already close, but at the brink of adulthood, were beginning to forge an even stronger bond. Fife detectives have reached out to the community, asking for anyone who may have information regarding the teen’s death to come forward. “Cameron was kind, he was funny, he was quirky … Actually, I don’t even want to use the word ‘was’ because he is.”Īs the days pass, Cameron’s murder remains unsolved. “He touched so many people’s lives,” Rochelle Wilson said. The granting of the posthumous diploma should be in a manner consistent with the intent of graduation, such as by a footnote in the program stating that the diploma is awarded posthumously, the district’s statement continued. The district procedure states a deceased student “may be honored at the graduation ceremony and qualify for a posthumous diploma that may be presented in the following way:Ī designee (student or school district representative such as a coach or teacher) may carry the deceased student’s picture during the graduation ceremony.” When a high school student passes before graduation, the school district works with the family to honor the student’s accomplishments towards a diploma, according to FWPS. “Our hearts go out to the friends, family and the school community mourning one of our students whose life was lost too soon,” the Federal Way Public Schools district said in a statement. She also plans to be at Todd Beamer’s graduation to support Cameron’s friends. He did well in school, and he enjoyed building computers from scratch in his free time, she said.Ĭameron planned to attend Seattle University to study computer science this fall.ĭue to his tragic murder, which is still under investigation, Rochelle Wilson hopes to accept Cameron’s diploma on his behalf since her son will not be walking across the stage to receive it. The sky was the limit for him,” Rochelle Wilson said. “He had a very bright future in front of him. We’re trying to hold it together with a prayer.”Ĭameron was a senior at Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way nearing graduation this June, the final finish line of high school. Anger, sadness, grief, all of it combined. “I’m trying to hold my family together … it’s so hard,” she said. Beamer attended Los Gatos High School, Wheaton Academy, DePaul University, California State University, Fresno and Wheaton College.įor the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's biography of Todd Beamer, click here.In the 10 days since his murder, the family has been taking it one painful second at a time, said Rochelle Wilson. Wheaton College also has a building named There is also a high school (Todd Beamer High School) in Federal Way, WA, named after Beamer. They burst into the cockpit and fought with the terrorists over the controls for the plane.Ī post office in Cranbury, New Jersey, was named after him. Recording) were that the passengers on Flight 93 did not cause the plane to crash intentionally. Though it was a widely-held belief that the passengers crashed the airliner in an attempt to save the lives of others on the ground, the 9/11 Commission's findings (based on the "black box" cockpit According to Jefferson,īeamer's last audible words were "Are you guys ready? Let's roll." This term would later become the war cry for those fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Later, he told the operator that some of the plane's passengers were planning "jump on" the hijackers. Turn in a southeasterly direction, a move that had him briefly panicking. He was also on the phone when the plane made its Passenger was killed and, later, that a flight attendant had told him the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded. David and Peggy Beamer spoke at a memorial event at Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way in honor of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the heroism of their son Todd Beamer on Friday, Sept. Beamer tried to placeĬredit card call through a phone located on the back of a plane seat but was routed to a customer-service representative instead, who passed him on to supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Todd and other passengers had been in communication with people via in-plane and cell phones and learned that the World Trade Center had been attacked using hijacked airplanes. nearly four months after her father's death. Survived by his wife, Lisa Beamer, two sons, David and Drew, and a daughter, Morgan Kay, who was born on Janu. He died at age 32 in the Septemattacks on board United Airlines Flight 93. Todd Beamer, who resided in Cranbury, New Jersey, was an account manager for the Oracle Corporation.
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