A high school track athlete faces a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery after a now-viral video showed her hitting a competitor's head with her baton during a relay event. Alaila Everett ...

A runner whose baton collided with another runner's head says it was accidental. Two high school runners are speaking out after a now-viral video showed one track star hitting her competitor in ...

Alaila Everett is facing the charges after hitting Kaelen Tucker with a baton -- leaving Tucker with a concussion and possibly fractured skull. Judges immediately disqualified Everett for contact ...

Click here for the latest update. A Virginia high school athlete is defending herself after a video captured the moment she hit a fellow competitor with a baton during a track and field relay race.

A Virginia high school athlete captured on video hitting a fellow competitor with a baton during a track and field relay race is charged with a misdemeanor, a prosecutor confirmed Thursday.

LYNCHBURG, Va. — An I.C. Norcom High School athlete has been charged after a track baton incident left another runner with a concussion and a possibly fractured skull, according to Bethany ...

The video has been widely shared online. It shows the moment Everett appears to hit another runner in the head with her baton as she's being passed. Alaila Everett says the video depicts an ...

From ABC 7: “I just felt a bang on my head, and then I fell off the track immediately,” Tucker said. Tucker was seen on camera dropping her baton and reaching for her head. “The whole coliseum pretty ...