Vigil honors Columbus teacher killed in suspected domestic violence incident

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Rachel Prince ran into one of her high school students at Taco Fest earlier this summer.

“She was just telling us, like, ‘Yeah, I can’t wait to see you all next year, we got some new things for y’all,’” Shaquan Lunsford, a soon-to-be senior at Marion-Franklin High School, said.

That was the last time Lunsford saw his teacher. Prince was found unresponsive and pronounced dead last Sunday afternoon. The next day, a coroner’s report stated her cause of death as strangulation.

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“Why her, out of all people, was like, she was just more than a teacher,” Lunsford said during a vigil honoring Prince at Goodale Park on Sunday. “She was like a second aunt to me. Her vibe, her smile, her laugh, the way she jokes, the way she clowns. She was just such a great woman, such a great soul.”…

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