It's been a couple of months since a stabbing and shooting at Carolina Forest High School left the school’s resource officer wounded and a 16-year-old student dead.
On October 16 Officer Marcus Rhodes shot and killed student Trevor Verinecz in self defense.
This incident was one of the biggest and most tragic local stories of 2009 that continues to affect a lot of people.
Some students told News 13 Tuesday that they still feel scared and a little tense even though sometime has passed.
They said they feel as if they have to be more aware of their surroundings than ever before.
Freshman Jeb Hill said that he wants to think his school is the safest place to be but knowing that one of his fellow students was gunned down on school property still makes him feel some what uneasy.
“It kind of makes us more scared and more alert because like in the mornings when we are standing here we don't know what is going to happen that day and the people that we could be standing beside or be in our group could do something like this again and we don't even know it," said Hill.
For junior Chris Nwanegwo, the incident he said remains etched in his memory.
"It kinda surprised me because you don't think of Carolina Forest as being a dangerous school,” said Nwanegwo, “It's a pretty quiet school so nothing really happens here but I was pretty surprised when it happened."
Since then Hill and Nwanegwo said they definitely feel a sense of change both personally and in the school's atmosphere.
They said it seems that school officials have stepped up security from having just one school resource officer to recently seeing at least six walking around the premises.
"They have everybody watching everybody and they do a lot of random searches, I haven't been in a random search but they do a whole lot of those now," said Hill.
"I gotta watch people more carefully and just like not say things that will hurt other people's feelings because you don't know how they will react…when it might hurt their feelings or something like that," said Nwanegwo.
News 13 visited Rhodes’ attorney Bill Monckton at his office Tuesday afternoon, but he was not available for a comment.
Verinecz's attorney, Jeff Chandler said the family is still grieving the loss of their loved one but that's all he could comment on.
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