A teenager who was killed during a mass shooting at a Louisiana mall was enjoying “senior skip day” and had just returned home from a spring break trip to New York City days before the tragedy.
Martha Odom, 17, was celebrating the final weeks of high school before graduation with two of her friends when she was tragically caught in the crossfire of two feuding groups inside the food court at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge on Thursday, officials revealed.
“We grieve the loss of one of our seniors, Martha Odom, following yesterday’s off-campus tragedy,” Ascension Episcopal School in Lafayette said Friday. “We continue to lift in prayer the two students who are healing, as well as the two additional students who were present.