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ST. JOSEPH, Missouri - On Monday, students at Lafayette High School in St. Joseph, Missouri found out one of their classmates died.
“It's probably been one of the hardest weeks of everyone’s lives. We all just miss him and it's been a tough week,” said friend Kyle Kendall.
Kendall went to school with 16-year-old Mason Adams since seventh grade.
Mason died Monday morning. The young baseball star was hit by a school bus while walking to class . There's now a memorial at the intersection where it happened, which is just blocks away from school.
A memorial was also created on Facebook to remember Mason. But friends of Mason are furious that someone posted disturbing pictures on the Facebook memorial page mocking Mason's death.
“We all loved him. We hurt enough already from him being gone I mean people just kind of need to grow up you know?” said Kendall.
“Anybody who has a heart could not do that to somebody,” said senior Cory Stover.
He says it has been hard enough trying to understand the loss of their friend and now this.
“Even though it happened on Monday, it’s hard for everyone to get back in motion and trying to get back it's just not easy,” said Stover.
Pam Bushong’s grandson played baseball with Mason. She says it's been difficult for him to deal with the loss of his friend.
“Disrespectful; they need to find out who did it and they need to be punished that is so disrespectful, because Mason was a good kid,” said Bushong.
School administrators say they have had counselors all week at the high school. They say the small school made up of about 820 students is close. So this tragedy has been a tough one to understand. With someone posting these images online, it now makes it even more difficult.
“It's appalling, reprehensible and despicable. It's extremely insensitive to the family, to his friends and his memory, it's very painful” said Steve Huff, assistant to the Superintendent.
His friends just want to know why someone is posting such harmful images on a website they hoped to use for comfort. And they want the pain to stop.
We have tried to contact the owners of the Facebook accounts posting the images but they have not responded.
