Excessive Faculty Runner
Charged With Assault, Battery …
For Alleged Baton Assault
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The highschool monitor runner who allegedly whacked her competitor within the head with a baton is now going through felony expenses regardless of her claims the incident was all simply an accident.
The Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Legal professional Workplace tells TMZ … prosecutors are charging Alaila Everett with one rely of assault and battery for allegedly beating Kaelen Tucker with the baton as they competed in final week’s 4x200m relay race on the VHSL Class 3 State Indoor Championship in Virginia.
Video reveals Tucker, a Brookville Excessive Faculty junior, operating previous Everett, a senior at I.C. Norcom Excessive Faculty, as they rounded the monitor throughout the second leg of the competitors.
As you possibly can see, the athletes apparently bump arms earlier than Everett strikes the again of Tucker’s head together with her baton. Tucker falls to the bottom with a concussion and a potential cranium fracture.
After the monitor meet, Everett advised a neighborhood information outlet that the alleged assault was unintentional and purely an accident, providing a considerably complicated clarification. She additionally stated individuals who had been indignant over what occurred peppered her with racial slurs and issued dying threats after the incident went viral on-line.
TMZ Sports activities interviewed Tucker‘s dad, Keith, who advised us the household filed a protecting order towards Everett because the police launched an investigation.
