A promising high school student in Tennessee was gunned down last week on her way home from a basketball game, the Haywood County Sheriff's Office said.
Two other teens, 18-year-old Kevion Davis, and 16-year-old Bishop Owens, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder over the shooting death of 17-year-old Christine Michael.
Michael and three other teens were inside a vehicle that was caught in gunfire on February 10 as they left a basketball game in Ripley. A 13-year-old girl was wounded in the incident.
Haywood County Schools Superintendent Amie Marsh said that Michael was the junior class president and had a 4.0-grade point average with “tremendous plans for her future.”
Michael's friends are planning to hold a memorial for their classmate where everyone will be wearing pink, her favorite color.
“I saw about 20 people in the bathroom crying about Christine talking about they about go home,” a classmate said.
“Grade 11 is so heartbroken because that was our president. Like we looked up to her, and we don't know what we're supposed to do now.”
