HUNTINGTON, Texas (KTRE) - The Huntington Independent School District community is mourning the loss of a seventh-grade student who died Sunday after contracting bacterial meningitis.

District officials confirmed that 13-year-old Ryker Larkin Anthony Bailey, a student at Huntington Middle School, died following an illness that began late last week.

Ryker was diagnosed with a specific strain of bacterial meningitis that was resistant to vaccines, and the illness claimed his life within 12 hours of diagnosis, according to reporting from the district.