The fourth annual Race for Campus Safety took place Saturday morning at the University of Utah, drawing hundreds of participants to honor the memory of Lauren McCluskey, a 21-year-old student-athlete who was killed on campus in 2018.

McCluskey, a state champion high jumper from Pullman, Washington, was shot and killed in October 2018 by a man she knew and had reported to campus police multiple times before the tragic incident occurred.

"It's so special to us," said Jill McCluskey, Lauren's mother, who attended Saturday's event.

The McCluskey family reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the university two years after Lauren's death , using those funds to help create the Lauren McCluskey Foundation.

"We really want to change the culture that responds poorly to relationship viol

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