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Teen girl killed in Florida school shooting spent summers at Georgia camp

WHITE COUNTY, Ga. — One of the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida spent her summers in Georgia.

Camp Coleman, a Jewish sleepaway camp in Cleveland, Georgia, posted on its Facebook page about the death of Alyssa Alhadeff.

Alhadeff’s mother posted on her Facebook page that she “would have taken those bullets for her.”

Tali Cohn first met Alhadeff last summer at the camp. The two became fast friends. She gave Channel 2's Mike Petchenik pictures of the two of them.

"She laughed at a lot of things like I do. That's why we became so close and she just always had a lot of fun, like always was super happy all the time,” Cohn said.

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Cohn said when she heard of the shooting, she thought of Alhadeff.

"When I first heard about the shooting, I heard it was Stoneman Douglas. I didn't really know what that meant. When I looked it up and found it was in Parkland, Florida, I knew that she lived there and I had other friends that lived close to there," Cohn said.

Longtime camp director Bobby Harris said the majority of the kids who go to Coleman are from south Florida. Many from that same school.

“We have campers who were in the room, that witnessed things. We have campers that were in lockdown all day,” Harris said.

Harris said the camp will hold a Facebook Live virtual vigil Thursday night to honor Alhadeff.

"We have people from all over who are feeling this and have heard of this and can't believe that a member of our own camp community was taken and can't believe that so many in our camp community have been impacted. So many families," Harris said.

In Alhadeff's mother's post, she continued saying, "She believed in people for being so honest. A knife is stabbed in my heart. I wish I could have taken those bullets for you. I will love you always and your memory will live on forever..."