Teen athlete who bashed opponent's head with baton claims it was accidental as she cries over backlash

The Virginia precocious schoolhouse way and tract runner who was seen violently smashing her baton into an opponent's caput during a relay contention has spoken retired astir the backlash she's received, portion claiming the incidental was an accident.

I.C. Norcom High School elder Alaila Everett gave hostile Brookville inferior Kaelen Tucker a concussion and imaginable skull fracture erstwhile she bushed her caput with the baton astatine an lawsuit connected Tuesday. Everett claims the onslaught occurred due to the fact that she mislaid her equilibrium and her baton got "stuck" down her opponent's head. 

"After a mates times of hitting her, my baton got stuck down her backmost similar this, and it rolled up her back. I mislaid my equilibrium erstwhile I pumped my arms again. She got hit," Everett said successful an interrogation with WAVY. "I cognize my intentions and I would ne'er deed idiosyncratic connected purpose,"

Everett besides said that portion she caused carnal symptom for Tucker, determination is not capable empathy for Everett's ain "mental" impact. 

"Everybody has feelings, truthful you’re physically hurt, but you’re not reasoning of my mental," Everett said. "They are assuming my character, calling maine ghetto and radical slurs, decease threats… each of this disconnected of a nine-second video."

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 Everett's mother, Zeketa Cost, told WAVY that she besides doesn't judge her girl did it connected purpose. 

"I didn’t person to spot a archetypal video, 2nd video oregon tenth video. I cognize 100% that she would ne'er bash that to nobody," Cost said. 

The household claimed that they person been served tribunal papers implicit the incidental and that Everett has tried to apologize to Tucker, but the concussed hostile has blocked Everett connected societal media. 

Tucker's mother, Tamarrow Tucker, told WSET ABC 13 connected Thursday that they hadn't received an apology.

"My full happening was nary apology," Tamarrow said. "No coaches, nary athlete, nary anything. Even if it was an accident, which I don’t judge it’s an accident, but nothing. It’s been much than 24 hours now, truthful I conjecture that was the large thing. My kid was wounded and cipher came to cheque connected her."

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Starting blocks and a baton astatine the 120th Penn Relays astatine Franklin Field. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

Tucker recounted the incidental and said the full conception gasped erstwhile they saw the repeated baton bashing. 

"The full conception conscionable gasped," Tucker told WSET ABC 13 astir those astir her successful the bleachers. "We had household travel from retired of town, her godparents were present from Myrtle Beach. Everybody conscionable gasped. When I saw her spell down, each I could bash is tally retired of the bleachers. I conscionable knew I had to get to her.

"She was benignant of hysterical due to the fact that she conscionable couldn’t judge that’s what had happened."

Tucker said a medic was already with her girl erstwhile she got down connected the track,. 

Everett and her full squad were disqualified for "contact interference." 

Vincent Pugh, erstwhile citywide diversion manager astatine Portsmouth Public Schools, questioned the validity of the disqualification, arguing a play-by-play showed that Tucker was moving intimately to Everett.

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Baton held by Kiersten Duncan of LSU successful the starting blocks astatine the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays astatine Mike A. Myers Stadium. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

"If a idiosyncratic comes up connected the outside, they got to beryllium a afloat stride up of maine earlier they tin chopped successful beforehand of me," Pugh told WAVY. 

The Virginia High School League (VHSL) issued a connection to Fox News Digital connected the matter. 

"The VHSL does not remark connected individuals oregon disciplinary actions owed to FERPA," the league's connection read. "The actions taken by the conscionable manager to disqualify the runner were due and correct. We thoroughly reappraisal each lawsuit similar this that involves subordinate information with the participating schools. The VHSL rank has ever made it a precedence to supply student-athletes with a harmless situation for competition."

Fox News Digital's Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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