Beloved Texas volleyball coach is killed in freak incident while enjoying a rooftop bar with friends

A high schoolhouse volleyball coach was changeable and killed while enjoying an evening connected a celebrated rooftop bar.

Ayden Rose Burt, 28, was deed successful nan backmost by a stray slug conscionable aft midnight Tuesday at the Smoke Skybar successful San Antonio, constabulary said.

She was a coach and coach pinch Jasper ISD and was visiting nan metropolis for nan Texas High School Coaches Association Conference.

Officers believe nan changeable came from a random conveyance extracurricular nan barroom successful nan vicinity of Interstate 37, reported 12 News.

'She was a mentor to many, and specified a nosy personification to beryllium around. She was nan champion way coach too,' 1 of Burt's athletes said successful a Facebook tribute.

Burt was reportedly sitting connected nan apical patio of nan celebrated downtown barroom pinch her backmost to nan road erstwhile she was shot.

She was taken to nan infirmary wherever she died from her injuries. Police said astatine shooting was random and they are moving to bring justness for her family. 

Jasper Independent School District John Seybold told SBG San Antonio Burt was a way and volleyball coach astatine Jasper County High School.

Seybold said Burt was attending an arena sponsored by a vendor erstwhile she was killed. 

She had been pinch nan schoolhouse territory for complete 5 years and precocious announced connected Facebook she was school Senior and Sophomore English classes this upcoming schoolhouse twelvemonth aft school astatine nan inferior precocious school. 

'I can’t convey nan family that is [Jasper Junior High School] capable for nan pedagogue you person molded maine into, really you’ve helped maine turn arsenic an individual and for nan endless emotion and support,' Burt said.

'Working pinch immoderate of my ain erstwhile teachers, who past became mentors, and past turned into life agelong friends has genuinely been a typical escapade that I wouldn’t waste and acquisition for nan world.

'I’m not only excited for this opportunity to thatch galore of my erstwhile students again, but besides to thatch nan people that made maine autumn successful emotion pinch lit successful nan first place.'

Burt was loved by nan schoolhouse territory and organization members called nan coach a 'jewel.'  

'I'm going to miss her. She was 1 I looked guardant to seeing mundane moreover if it was astatine school, aliases swat she was 1 that ne'er fto you fall. I loved her truthful much, it doesn't moreover look real,' said 1 student.