He “used to give you fist bumps, used to give you extra food when you were at the end of the lunch line,” Jas Gillman told KMSP-TV. “He gave you extra food when the other ones weren’t looking.”
Another student, Mitchell Gillman, told the station that Castile would comfort students when he noticed they were feeling down.
“He was really nice to everyone and he was one of the kindest people in the whole school,” Mitchell said.
Joshua Wilkes, a parent at the school, said he had to tell his adopted Ethiopian son about another fatal police shooting of a black man.
“This one happens to be someone my son knows,” Wilkes told KMSP.