Payton Washington Earns National Title After Surviving a Shooting

On Monday, April 17, 2023, Payton Washington had her whole life ahead of her. She was gearing up to compete at the Cheerleading Worlds, a few weeks later she would graduate high school, and then she’d go to Baylor University and officially join the acrobatics and tumbling team, a program with seven national titles. It was all she had been working toward…