Three students at Wise High School in Upper Marlboro have died — two of them in fatal shootings and one in a car crash — in less than three months.
in an elementary school parking lot in Prince George’s County was the driver in a fatal collision in Upper Marlboro in March, police said. He is the third student at his high school to have died in as many months.Prince George’s County police responding to a call to the North Forestville Elementary School parking lot found Kendall Batson of District Heights suffering from gunshot wounds, police said. Batson later died at a hospital.
Batson was a senior at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School. On the morning of March 7, while driving to the high school, he was involved in anthat left his passenger, 18-year-old Cayliy Haygood, dead, police said. In a preliminary investigation, police said Batson was attempting to overtake another vehicle when he hit a parked landscaping trailer; police were also investigating whether speed was a factor. Haygood, who was also a student at Wise, died at the scene, police said.
The family hopes to raise $20,000 to bring 18-year-old Cayliy Haygood back home to Texas to be laid to rest.
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