Caverna High School students will gather Tuesday to honor a former teacher, Kaci Wilson, who most recently taught English as a second language at Jennings Creek Elementary School in Bowling Green before she was killed Sunday in a three-vehicle crash on Campbell Lane.

“The kids came up with this idea of wanting to do it,” said Caverna High School Principal Matt Bastin, who said Wilson, 26, taught English at the school the previous two years.

Bastin said the high school seniors who had Wilson for English classes wanted to hold a vigil for their former teacher. The vigil will take place at 5 p.m. Tuesday outside the school.

“It’s been a hard day here for us,” Bastin said Monday, adding he hadn’t personally worked with Wilson.

Morgan Watson, spokeswoman for Warren County Public Schools, said Monday that grief counselors were being provided to teachers and students at Jennings Creek.

“They’re available as long as the students need their assistance,” she said.

The school’s principal and several teachers referred comment to Watson, who declined to comment beyond a statement issued to media outlets Monday.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with Kaci Wilson and her family,” Watson said. “She was a wonderful young teacher who loved her students and her colleagues. We will miss her vibrant spirit, but she won’t be forgotten by the WCPS community.”

Wilson graduated from Warren Central High School in 2010, according to her profile on Warren County Public Schools’ website.

She completed her student teaching at Greenwood High School, graduated from Western Kentucky University and began her teaching career at her high school alma mater.

According to a Bowling Green Police Department report, Wilson was traveling east on Campbell Lane as a passenger in a vehicle driven by Noel Cruz-Lemus. The vehicle was traveling in the right-hand lane when a witness said it appeared to speed up as it passed a slower vehicle.

Police say the vehicle then lost control and veered into oncoming traffic where it was struck on the passenger side, which the report described as a “contributing factor” to Wilson’s fatal injuries. A third vehicle rear-ended the vehicle that struck Wilson.

Deputy Coroner Phillip Wheeler determined Wilson’s time of death as 2:30 p.m. Although a responding officer spoke with others involved in the accident, Cruz-Lemus was unavailable due to the “severity of his injuries,” the report said.

Stephanie Karl, a special education teacher at Caverna High School, said Monday that students were “looking for ways to show their admiration,” for Wilson. She described the mood in the school as somber and said the senior class was particularly close to Wilson.

“She was very kind and very in tune with their personal interests and just who they were as individuals,” Karl said, adding Wilson taught her students to love reading and writing.

Karl asked for prayers for Wilson’s family.

“They lost such a young life,” she said.

The accident remains under investigation by Bowling Green police.