Son Of Substitute Teacher Cynthia Tisdale Killed In Santa Fe HS Shooting “She Died Doing What She Loved”

Louisiana woman, Cynthia Tisdale, a substitute teacher and teacher’s aide, has been named as one of ten people killed in a tragic mass shooting at Santa Fe High School.

Tisdale was working as an art teacher’s aide when she was brutally murdered by 17-year-old, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, along with 9 others on campus at the Texas high school.

Tisdale was a Baton Rouge Broadmoor High School graduate and a native of Thibodaux, La.

Her son, Recie Tisdale, told the reporters that his mother loved children and teaching.

“She started substitute teaching because she loved to help children,” he told the Washington Post. “She didn’t have to do it. She did it because she loved it.” source

Tisdale and her husband, William, have been married for nearly 40 years. She had three children and eight grandchildren, according to KHOU TV.

Pagourtzis, 17, has been charged with multiple counts of capital murder.