Cheerleaders' harrowing experiences with gun violence

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A Texas cheerleader, Payton Washington, was shot and critically injured after another girl mistakenly opened the wrong car door. She was struck three times in her leg and back, damaging her pancreas and diaphragm. The incident was one of a string of recent incidents in which young people were shot during apparently safe, ordinary encounters. The other cheerleader, Heather Roth, was grazed. Police arrested and charged a 25-year-old suspect with deadly conduct with a firearm.
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- 'We were trying to get away': Texas cheerleader shot after friend got into the wrong car speaks out ABC11
- Texas cheerleader shot 3 times after friend got into wrong car recalls harrowing attack and hurdles in recovery NBC News
- Cheerleader shot in Elgin graduates from high school KVUE.com
- Woodlands cheerleader shot outside H-E-B speaks publicly for the first time on 'Good Morning America' Houston Chronicle
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