Makiya Bradsher was sitting in her classroom at Cummings High School in October 2022, when she was brutally and repeatedly stabbed by another student, Meyka Haith-Herbin, whom Bradsher claims became obsessed with her, continuously asked her to be her friend, and reacted violently when she failed to reciprocate.
“Anything you want to say to me? Do you want to fight me?” Bradsher claims her alleged attacker, Haith-Herbin, shouted at her while she waited for her first-period English class to begin the morning of October 11, 2022.
Haith-Herbin pulled a knife, stabbing Bradsher nine times in the head, face, and chest, leaving her with lacerations that required four staples in her head and three stitches near her temple.
Before that morning, Bradsher had been a “thriving 17-year-old high school student” at Cummings – where she was involved in school and extracurricular activities and was nominated to the homecoming court that fall – but didn’t return to school for months and has never been the same, according to the lawsuit she later filed against the school board and her former English teacher at the high school…