Students at Apalachee High School in Georgia met with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as they geared up for their first day back after a deadly shooting on campus.
The school has been shut down since Sept. 4, when a 14-year-old student opened fire on campus, killing two students and two teachers and wounding nine others. Officials charged him as an adult on four counts of felony murder.
Over the weekend, The Rock met with students from the school’s football team, after inviting them to one of the sound stages he has been working on in nearby Atlanta.
He shared a photo from that day alongside a heartfelt message on Tuesday, when students headed back to class for the first time since the shutdown.
“As the students and staff take this next healing step and go back to school today, the one message I wanted to share with them is what I also shared with the football team: It’s not the actual event itself that happened on September 4th that will define them for the rest of their lives, it’s how they respond to it that defines them for the rest of their lives,” he wrote.