Beamon Aton Hill was a 16-year-old student from Olivehurst, California, who died on May 1, 1992, during the Lindhurst High School shooting. Former student Eric Houston entered the school armed with a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun and a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle and shot several people that day. Houston had already killed teacher Robert Brens and students Judy Davis and Jason Edward White before encountering Beamon Hill.

According to accounts of the incident, Beamon pushed fellow student Angela Welch out of the shooter’s line of fire and was fatally shot in the side of his head while doing so. His actions are remembered as an act of heroism by the Olivehurst community. Houston engaged in an eight-hour standoff with police, during which more than 80 students were held, and surrendered to authorities.

Does anyone have memories of Beamon or information about his life at Lindhurst High that could help preserve his story?