Darielle Rainey, a popular
high school student at McMain High School, was killed in
a hail of bullets while sitting in her car talking to her
boyfriend Sunday night
According to police reports, a red Dodge pickup drove up
to where she was parked and a number of people inside began
firing, striking Rainey and 19-year-old Brandon Tucker several
times. Rainey was pronounced dead at the scene. Tucker was
rushed to the hospital and is in stable condition with shots
to the hip, leg and knee.
At McMain, where Rainey was well-known and well-liked, counselors
were called in to talk to students and the school’s
principal tried to put the incident in some perspective.
“Bullets have no name,” said Principal Bridgette
Frick. “That’s what we tell our children. Darielle
is a beautiful flower who will be sadly missed.”
Shauna Tucker, the mother of Brandon Tucker, said the shooting
happened in front of her home, just down the street from
a crime camera. Police said the camera was working at the
time and they are checking the images for possible help.
“It really does need to stop,” said Tucker.
“An innocent child is gone and my son is shot up.
How many more mamas got to cry behind their children? It’s
sad.”
McMain is a small school of about 700 students and principal
Frick says they are close knit. She said the children are
remembering Darielle by writing their memories of her on
a ‘life wall’ that hangs at the school.
“This teaches our young people that it could happen
to anybody,” she said. “This is what we shared
with them this morning.”
Orleans School Board President Torin Sanders described the
shooting as another example of ‘too many guns in too
many hands, with too much anger.”
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