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A beloved, 17-year-old student in Tennessee was shot and killed while she was returning home from a basketball game.
Christine Michael, the class president of Haywood High School, was fatally shot in a vehicle while riding home from a basketball game with three other teenagers, per WREG.
According to the Haywood County Sheriff's Office, the vehicle was ambushed with multiple rounds of gunfire from the shooter(s) in another car. Officials said two suspects, an 18-year-old teenager and a 16-year-old, have been arrested in connection to the shooting, which also left a 13-year-old injured.
Both suspects are facing charges of first-degree murder, according to officials.
"They robbed me of my child," Christine's mother, Tiffany Michael, told WREG. "They took my baby. They robbed me. I'll never have grandchildren by her."
"I'll never get to see her walk the line, I'll never see her accomplish all the things that she started from day one when she put her feet on this earth," she continued.
The mother noted that her daughter helped identify one of the suspects before her death.
"When the incident was going on, she was texting. So, she identified one of the people," she said.
Christine's high school principal said the class president was a straight-A student who "embodied everything you want in a student. But more importantly, you could see her soul — it was perfect."
"Christine was a promising student who had tremendous plans for her future. We are all deeply saddened by her passing and by the brilliant light that was extinguished Friday evening. Please keep her family in your thoughts," Haywood County School District Superintendent Amie Marsh said in a statement.
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