TEXAS - Tyler Jefferson was found near the building where she had begun her specialized training here in Pensacola.

Tonight, Tyler's former teachers in Texas tell us... This news makes an already difficult year even harder.

Talyor Hemness reports from Tyler, Texas.

"It kind of hits you like a wave. Today it did. And it brought back a lot of feelings, and one of the things I thought today was how much more can we take this year."

Patricia Grunden says she'll never forget the moment that Tyler Jefferson won a first place medal in District U-I-L Journalism.

Today, that memory came flooding back with the click of a mouse.

"One of our administrators had sent out an e-mail, and I was in the middle of teaching a class and I had just glanced down for a second, and I just gasped, and immediately my students knew something was wrong."

Algebra teacher Kenya Symonette also knew Tyler through U.I.L.

She says the two of them even went shopping for a prom dress, and she remembers when Tyler made the decision to join the Navy.

"She decided that she wanted to go into the Navy, because she wanted to see the world." "She got a full scholarship that would have been over 100 thousand dollars toward her education." "I mean that's all you heard, up until the time that she left, she was like, OK, I'm getting out of Tyler, I'm going to do something with my life."

Fellow veteran Jimmie Bybee taught Tyler's engineering class.

He says she could have done anything she wanted to do. Today, as the news spread on campus, he used Tyler's story to teach other students just how fragile life can be.

"I put one of these pictures up on the board for the students, and I said look, y'all think you're invincible, and you're going to live forever. And here's a student that was here last semester, 14:45 and through this tragedy, she went off base, and she was killed in a robbery. Life goes just that quick, and we never know what it's going to bring.'Reaction To Murder Of Tyler Jefferson