Tennessee girl, high school class president, shot to death coming home from basketball game

A 17-year-old Tennessee secondary school understudy was lethally shot on Feb. 10 while driving home from a ball game with companions.

Christine Michael purportedly had a 4.0 GPA and was class president at Haywood Secondary School in Brownsville — about an hour from Memphis, FOX 13 revealed, refering to Michael’s relatives.

Haywood Province authorities have captured and charged Kevion Davis, 18, and Priest Owens, 16, with first-degree murder regarding the occurrence. They are both being held without bond, and specialists are looking for three extra charges against every person.

“The occurrence that ended the existence of Christine Michael Friday night will everlastingly change the existences of a considerable number individuals,” Haywood Sheriff Billy Garrett Jr. said in a Feb. 12 Facebook post. “Our sincere sympathies go out to the Michael family during this very troublesome time, and we need to help and elevate them as they work through the agony that this misfortune has brought to their loved ones.”

The young lady was getting back to Brownsville on Expressway 19 from Ripley, where she had been watching a secondary school ball game, in a vehicle with companions when “somebody out of nowhere begun taking shots at them,” Garrett said in a Feb. 11 articulation presented on Facebook.

A 13-year-old young lady in a similar vehicle was likewise harmed in the assault while the driver was safe.

Tennessee girl, high school class president, shot to death coming home from basketball game

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Promotion A Twitter account under the name “Kevion Davis” of Brownsville, Tennessee composed on Dec. 3, 2022, “I swear it’s a gift to have various schools hitting me up ordinary, despite the fact that my season finished in Week 4 by a torn leg tendon.”

Haywood Secondary School understudies got back to classes on Monday and recalled their dearest cohort. Sheriff Garrett and Haywood Province Schools Director Amie Bog, in a joint explanation, portrayed Michael as “a promising understudy who had gigantic designs for her future.”

Michael’s schoolmate, Synandiaha Welch, said the 17-year-old made her “begin battling for” better grades.