Beloved student and baseball player 20-year-old Jatonne Sterling was shot and killed Tuesday.
Pruitt joined the class of 2020 this fall at 15 years old as one of the youngest students ever at the historically black college in Atlanta.
A Rochester, NY prep school's first black valedictorian was forbidden to recite his speech during the ceremony allegedly due to "run-ins" with his principal.
There are 106 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States today.
