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Volunteer firefighter Jamie Brock who tackled the shooter at a South Carolina elementary school Wednesday, released a statement through his fire chief saying the school's teachers and principal are the "true heroes." (Sept. 29, 2016) AP
TOWNVILLE, S.C. — Jeffrey Osborne, the 47-year-old father of the teen accused of shooting him and then three people at Townville Elementary School on Wednesday, was laid to rest Sunday afternoon in this quiet rural community.
Osborne, who owned a poultry farm near Townville was remembered as an avid motorcyclist and a good neighbor.
More than dozen bikers gathered in the parking lot outside the church on Sunday, among Osborne’s friends and neighbors who mourned.
Neighbors Dwain and Shelia Brown came to the church Sunday to pay their respects. They live near the Osborne family on Jolly Road. Dwain Brown described Jeffrey Osborne as a big-hearted and kind man who allowed hunters to use his land.
“He was the kind of fella you wanted for a neighbor or a brother,” Dwain Brown said.
The Browns said Jeffrey Osborne's family is seen as pillars of the community.
Dwain Brown said he went to school with Jeffrey Osborne’s parents. He described the whole family as good people, “just like you think country people ought to be.”
Authorities say 14-year-old Jesse Osborne fatally shot his father last Wednesday before shooting a teacher and two students near the playground at Townville Elementary. One of the wounded students, 6-year-old Jacob Hall, died Saturday. The other student and first-grade teacher Meghan Hollingsworth were treated at AnMed Health Medical Center in Anderson and released. Jesse Osborne is facing murder and attempted murder charges.
Sunday's funeral for Jeffrey Osborne took place at Oakdale Baptist Church, which has become a center of activity in the aftermath of last week's violence, and the center of the community’s healing.
Townville Elementary was evacuated after the shootings and students were brought to the church to be reunited with their parents. A community prayer service was held at the church later that night and a similar service was to be held there hours after Sunday's funeral.
Jacob's family also attends the church that will host a visitation for him from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a service celebrating his life at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Jeffrey Osborne was a 1987 graduate of Westside High School in Anderson. He lived in a home at the end of a private, unpaved road off Fair Play Road in a rural area dominated by poultry farms in western Anderson County. He filed an application with state officials last year to expand his poultry operation. The home is on a 5-acre tract that he acquired in 2003 from his parents, Tommy and Patsy Osborne, who have an adjoining 30 acres, according to county property records.
Judge Edgar Long presides over a hearing of a 14-year old, charged as a juvenile Fri, Sept. 30, 2016 in Anderson, with murder and three counts of attempted murder after authorities say he killed his father and opened fire on students on a playground. KEN RUINARD/Independent Mail
Volunteer firefighter Jamie Brock who tackled the shooter at a South Carolina elementary school Wednesday, released a statement through his fire chief saying the school's teachers and principal are the "true heroes." (Sept. 29, 2016) AP
Parents and a guardian of students at Pendleton Elementary School talk Thursday about how they feel about this week's shooting at Townville Elementary School Ken Ruinard/Independent Mail
Townville Elementary will be closed for the rest of the week after a gunman opened fire at the school, wounding two students and a teacher. The shooting suspect is 14 years old. WLTX
A teenager killed his father at their home Wednesday before going to a nearby elementary school and opening fire with a handgun, wounding two students and a teacher, authorities said. (Sept. 28) AP
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Jeffrey Osborne was buried at Double Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Townville, His survivors include his parents, his wife, three children and a brother.
Earlier Sunday afternoon, several cars were parked in a grassy area beside Tommy and Patsy Osborne’s white, single-story home on Fair Play Road. An American flag was flying on the carport next to the home.
“It is terrible for everyone involved, including the entire community,” said a woman sitting outside the home who declined to give her name.
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