[nggallery id=471]
A very sad story coming from the campus of Florida A&M where a female basketball player was murdered brutally in a knife attack.
Here are the details.
Florida A&M basketball player Shannon Washington died early Sunday morning after suffering a knife wound to her neck, the school announced.
Tallahassee Police responded to a report of a stabbing and found Washington in an apartment. She was treated at the scene by police and EMS and later died at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, police said.
Starquineshia Palmer, 20, who was visiting Washington for the weekend, was detained and charged with first-degree murder, police reported.
This isn’t Starquineshia Palmer first run in with the law. She has been arrested several times in Florida for probation violations. We have a few more details about the murder.
It appears that Starquineshia and Shannon got into an early morning fight. The fight escalated from verbal to physical. Starquineshia grabbed a kitchen knife and that is when she stabbed Shannon. She was arrested shortly thereafter.
By all accounts it was some sort of lover’s quarrel that got way out of hand.
This is awful. Whatever the disagreement was about it didn’t need to lead to murder. Thoughts and prayers go out to Shannon’s family and friends. They will be holding a vigil on the FAMU campus tonight.