A Virginia high school track runner who was seen hitting her opponent in the back of the head with a baton last week now faces a misdemeanour charge of assault and battery.
The incident took place when Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker was competing in the 4×200-metre relay at a track meet at Liberty University in Lynchburg on March 4.
A video of the incident shared on Facebook shows Tucker grabbing a metal baton from her teammate and taking off. As she begins to overtake another runner, Alaila Everett of IC Norcom High School appears to raise her own baton and hit Tucker across the head with it, the video shows.
Bethany Harrison, the commonwealth’s lawyer for the city of Lynchburg, confirmed to ABC News…