• Bellaire High School student Cesar Cortes, 19, was shot and killed Tuesday during what authorities described as an accidental shooting. Photo: Courtesy
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Bellaire High School student Cesar Cortes, 19, was shot and killed Tuesday during what authorities described as an accidental shooting.

Bellaire High School student Cesar Cortes, 19, was shot and killed Tuesday during what authorities described as an accidental shooting.

Photo: Courtesy

It’s been more than a day since 19-year-old Cesar Cortes was shot and killed inside a Bellaire High School classroom.

Starting Thursday morning, students return to the school after Houston ISD canceled classes Wednesday in the wake of the deadly shooting, which happened around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Cortes, an aspiring soldier and graduating senior, was already enlisted in the U.S. Army when he was killed.

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A long line of students outside Bellaire High School as they are waiting to have their backpacks checked on Thursday morning, Jan. 16, 2020, in Bellaire. It was the first day the students go back to school after the 19-year-old senior Cesar Cortez was accidentally shot and killed on campus by a 16-year-old student on Tuesday.

Media: Yi-Chin Lee / Houston Chronicle

Click through the slideshow to see the must-know information about the shooting – and what we still don’t know.

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