Authorities in East Chicago, Indiana, are recognizing the bravery of two students who stepped up and quite possibly helped prevent a severe tragedy at their Catholic school.

As Blavity previously reported, a 25-year-old instructor named Angelica Carrasquillo-Torres was taken into custody last month after it was revealed that the 5th grade teacher had a “kill list” that included numerous students from St. Stanislaus School.

“On Wednesday October 12, 2022, at approximately 12:45 p.m. a 5th grade student told his/her Counselor that their 5th grade teacher made comments to him/her about killing herself, students and staff at St. Stanislaus School. The teacher further told the student that she has a list and that he/she was on the bottom of that list,” the East Chicago Police Department (ECPD) wrote in an Oct. 13 Facebook post.

“She said that she wanted to kill her middle school friends, her high school friends and half of her family,” Portia Jones, one of Carrasquillo-Torres’s students, shared, according to CBS News. “Then she admitted that she had a kill list.”

Since the matter went down, the instructor in question has been fired and has agreed to a no-contact order with the school.

Additionally, the students who helped bring the situation to public attention are being honored with the ECPD’s Heroism Award.

“We find it heroic, because how difficult is that for two children to have to speak up against someone they trust — and were actually threatened by that one person?” Jose Rivera, chief of the ECPD, shared, CBS News reports.

Rivera went on to note that — while most of the coverage has been on Carrasquillo-Torres’s misdeed — he wants more people to acknowledge the heroism exhibited by the two students in question.

Shoutout to the brave students at St. Stanislaus School who helped oust the troubled 5th grade teacher from her teaching position.

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