The high school athlete on the high school track accused of attack after the Virginia cane incident

Lynchburg, va. – A high school athlete from Virginia was accused of attacking offenses and battery, after a runway cane left a competing runner with an emotion and possible fractured skull.

Alaila Everett, senior at the IC Norom High School, was leading the second stage of the 4×200 meters relay, when her cane hit Kalen Tucker, a junior at the Brookville High School, in the head. Tucker threw his own stick before he looked and fell to the ground after being hit. The incident, which has gone viral on social mediaIt took place in the Championships of the League of Virginia State High School at Liberty University in Lynchburg, on March 4.

Everett, who was accused of lawyer Lynchbur Commonwealth, Bethany Harrison on Wednesday, claims that the incident was an accident.

“I would never do this intentionally,” Everett said “Good Morning America” ​​in an interview that was broadcast on Tuesday. “He is not in my character.”

Everett further explained his actions during an interview with Wtkr news 3 in Norfolk.

“She touched me to the point where I was pumping my arm, and the stick hit her arm,” she said. “I lose my balance – my whole body turns, and then I pump my arms, so it was hit.”

Meanwhile, Tucker offered his own vision of the incident.

“As we approached the curve, he continued to hit me in his arm,” she said. “When I finally got off the curve, I started slowly, and she hit me with a stick.”

Tucker’s mother defended her daughter, adding that Everett and the coaches of the opposing team arrived after the incident.

“To see that they continued to run and she (no) does not stop and check my daughter … could not have been an accident,” she said Wvec 13 News in the hampton.

The NAACP chapter in Portsmouth, where IC Norom’s High School is issued, issued a statement in the defense of Everett, on Wednesday morning, before the announcement was notified.

“Alaila is not an attacker and media titles that allude to this way is shameful,” says the statement. “We understand the sensitivity of circumstances for both athletes and their families involved, but this narrative does not have to be unadged.

“Alaila is a student of honor and a star sportsman at the historian High School IC Norcom. Of all the reports, he is an exceptional young leader and scientist whose athletic talent has been well documented and recognized in our entire state. It has been integrated with both the field and outside the field, and any narrative that judges its guilt for any criminal activity is a violation of its due rights, ”he added.