While Miley Cyrus decided to spend her Fourth of July weekend twerking, smoking, and getting tatted up with her friends, her father Billy Ray Cyrus opted to pay tribute and honor a slain Nevada school teacher.

FOX News reports that while performing at his concert at Incline Village on Saturday, a Nevada community on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Billy Ray Cyrus dedicated a portion of his concert to tribute Michael Landsberry, a teacher who was killed by a 12-year-old student last year during a schoolyard shootout.

Cyrus presented Landsberry's widow, Sharon, with a memorial plaque in honor of her husband and praised him as a "true American hero."

"Tonight we are here to honor a true American hero," Cyrus told his audience of over 1,000 people. "Michael Landsberry made the ultimate sacrifice to save his students after serving three terms in Afghanistan."

Following the memorial plaque, Cyrus later honored Landsberry again during his show. This time, with his patriotic song called "Some Gave All."

While singing the honorable song, a large photograph of Michael Landsberry and his wife was reportedly projected onto a screen behind Billy Ray Cyrus.

Michael Landsberry was a math teacher and ex-Marine who died from the shooting in a Reno suburb middle school last October.

AceShowbiz reports that during the shootout on Oct. 21, Landsberry tried to persuade the pre-teen shooter to let go of his gun and stop shooting.

However, Landsberry's attempt proved to be unsuccessful as he was immediately killed and shot in the chest along by the shooter who later took his own life. Two additional students were wounded but survived.

"We all love him today. ... He lives within all of us," Sharon Landsberry said about her husband while accepting his memorial plaque from Billy Ray Cyrus.

Rest in peace, Michael Landsberry.