Virginia teen track runner who bashed opponent's head with baton charged with assault and battery

The Virginia precocious schoolhouse way and tract jock who was seen bashing an opponent's caput with a baton during a contention has been charged with battle and battery, Lynchburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Office confirmed to Fox News Digital. 

I.C. Norcom High School pupil jock Alaila Everett was seen smashing her baton connected the caput of Brookville High School inferior Kaelen Tucker during a title conscionable past week. Footage of the incidental went viral successful the pursuing days, prompting nationalist contention and backlash against Everett. 

Tucker was aboriginal diagnosed with a concussion and imaginable skull fracture.

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Tucker and her household members did not definitively accidental whether they would property charges against Everett aft the incidental successful an interrogation with WSET ABC 13. However, charges person present officially been pressed, arsenic Everett faces 1 misdemeanor number battle and battery.

Everett has since said the hits were accidental, successful interviews with WAVY and "Good Morning America." 

Prior to the charges being announced connected Everett, the Portsmouth NAACP released a connection defending the embattled teen connected Wednesday. 

"Alaila is NOT AN ATTACKER and media headlines that allude towards that successful immoderate mode is shameful. We recognize the sensitivity of the circumstances for some athletes and their families progressive but this communicative indispensable not spell unaddressed," the connection read.  

"Alaila is an grant pupil and a prima jock astatine the historical I.C. Norcom High School. From each accounts, she is an exceptional young person and student whose diversion endowment has been good documented and recognized crossed our state. She has carried herself with integrity some connected and disconnected the tract and immoderate communicative that adjudicates her blameworthy of immoderate transgression enactment is simply a usurpation of her owed process rights."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Everett's household via the Portsmouth Public School District for comment. 

Tucker recounted the incidental successful an interrogation with WSET ABC 13 past Friday, and said the full conception gasped erstwhile they saw the repeated baton bashing. 

"The full conception conscionable gasped," Tucker told the presumption 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.

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The Virginia precocious schoolhouse way and tract jock who was seen bashing an opponent's caput with a baton during a contention has been charged with battle and battery. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

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

Everett claims the hits occurred due to the fact that she mislaid her equilibrium and her baton got "stuck" down her opponent's back.

"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."

During an interrogation with Good Morning America connected Wednesday, Everett and her household showed a antithetic space of the footage, and re-enacted the incidental to effort and beryllium it was an accident. 

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I.C. Norcom High School pupil jock Alaila Everett was seen smashing her baton connected the caput of Brookville High School inferior Kaelen Tucker during a title conscionable past week. (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)

"Her limb was virtually hitting the baton similar this until she got a small up and my limb got stuck similar this," Everett said portion utilizing a household subordinate to correspond Tucker during the incidental successful the clip. 

The Virginia High School League (VHSL) antecedently 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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