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When he first heard classmates talking about what had happened, it didn’t seem real, Prasad said. But then he saw their faces on social media.

“Very nice, very friendly,” a clearly upset Prasad said of Jhutty. “Very hard working student.”

Roy Dewar, the father of a friend of Prasad’s moved to comfort the teen and another friend.

“Kids shouldn’t be killing kids,” Dewar said, his hand on Prasad’s shoulder. “Kids shouldn’t be dying.”

“My heart just broke,” he said when he learned what had happened.

He said his own son was “hanging in there.”

“I don’t know how you tell your son his friend is no longer (here).”

He lamented the fact that parents are having to work so hard to support their families they’re being forced to miss out on home life, often leaving their kids at home with little guidance.

“This generation has no respect,” he said. “There’s nobody at home to look after the kids.”

Dewar called on the government to do more to combat gangs and to help families.

“We need a lot of education over what it means to be in a gang. It’s not all it’s cut up to be,” he said. “Fast money leads to fast death.”

Surrey School District spokesman Doug Strachan said the board was informed of the murders by members of their Safe Schools anti-gang program.

Grief and shock have descended on the entire district, he said.

“It’s just a shocking thing to hear about. It’s one that you can’t help but be affected by,” Strachan said.

“We have put out an offer of support for students and staff effected by this tragedy.”