A VIRGINIA highschool senior has been charged with one depend of misdemeanor assault and battery after allegedly hitting a fellow runner within the head together with her baton throughout a relay race.

Video which has since gone viral seems to indicate Alaila Everett rounding the curve within the second leg of a 2x200m relay race when Kaelen Tucker tried to overhaul her.

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Everett’s baton seems to hit Tucker on the top, who instantly dropped her personal baton and collapsed off the observe.

Tucker has since been recognized with a concussion and a doable fractured cranium.

Everett is a pupil at I.C. Norcom Excessive College in Portsmouth, VA, and insists the incident was purely unintended.

She is but to make a proper plea.

She informed WAVY10 Information that she misplaced her steadiness as Tucker handed her, making contact with the baton as she appeared to regain management.

The incident passed off at Virginia’s indoor observe state championships.

Each Everett and I.C. Norcom disqualified from the meet.

She provides that she has acquired loss of life threats for the reason that incident video went viral.

College students at I.C. Norcom Excessive College held a rally in assist of Everett on Thursday, which was attended by greater than 50 folks.

Everett was tearful as she spoke to the group, saying: “I like y’all… no one else wished to listen to my story.

“I might by no means do something like that, I might by no means hurt anyone, I’m not a fighter, I am not even confrontational.

“Thank y’all for believing in me.”

The rally, organized by an I.C. Norcom mother or father, was additionally attended by the President of the Portsmouth NAACP James Boyd, who dedicated to defending Everett from media villification.

He stated: “She is just not an attacker. Alaila is an honor pupil.

“We’re not going to take a seat again and permit the felony justice system to outline her future.”

A assertion launched by the Portsmouth NAACP stated Everett “is an distinctive younger chief and scholar.

“She has carried herself with integrity each on and off the sector.

“Our hope is that this example could be resolved with each athletes persevering with their athletic pursuits with none implications.”

Tucker’s dad and mom say the household is but to obtain an apology from Everett or any member of Norcom’s group employees.

Everett, although, stated she has tried to achieve out to Tucker on social media and been blocked.