There were no classes held at Hoosier Road Elementary and Fall Creek Intermediate Schools Thursday and Friday because a teacher at each school died Wednesday night tragically.  Classes are set to resume Monday.

Late Friday afternoon, Fishers Police released the Hamilton County Coroner’s ruling that Kristal Sergi, a teacher at Hoosier Road Elementary School, died Wednesday night from a homicide with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest.  The death of Frank Sergi, an art teacher at Fall Creek Intermediate, was a suicide with a single gunshot to the head, per the coroner’s report.

This has been a very difficult time for the many people in the Fishers area that knew this couple.  Based on public records, it appears the couple was in the process of going through a divorce.

There were counselors and mental health professionals available at Hoosier Road & Fall Creek Thursday & Friday.

Now, it is time to return to classes.  Hamilton Southeastern Schools Superintendent Allen Bourff sent the following message Sunday:

Classes resume Monday, October 29 at Hoosier Road Elementary and Fall Creek Intermediate, and our sympathies go out to the Sergi family and especially to their sons. Our thanks go to the many patrons and neighbors who have extended themselves to support our staffs. Our admiration, confidence, and thanks go out to our staff for their resilience and determination to serve their students in the wake of such tragedy and their own personal grief. As I have said so many times throughout recent days, we have good people coming together to work through this challenge, and they will. To our families and to our students, rest assured that you are in capable, professional, and most of all, loving hands as school starts again. 

Yes, classes resume (Monday) at Hoosier Road Elementary and Fall Creek Intermediate, but throughout all of Hamilton Southeastern Schools, all schools open with a heightened awareness of the fragility of life and the significance of each individual. 

Together, we move forward.