Hayden Pritchard biography: 10 things about Chula Vista, California man

Hayden Drew Pritchard is an American man from Chula Vista, California, United States. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He is neither a student nor an alumnus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, USA.
2. He is 1 year older than Sergio Pimentel Delgado of Baldwin Park, California.
3. In January 2022, he and Delgado enlisted into the U.S. Marine Corps.
4. In April 2022, he and Delgado graduated recruit training at U.S. Marine Corps recruit depot in San Diego, California.
5. In October 2022, he and Delgado graduated from the School of Infantry – West in Camp Pendleton, California.
6. In December 2022, he and Delgado reported to the U.S. Marine barracks at 8th and I streets in Southeast, Washington, D.C., USA.
7. At around 1:45 a.m. on April 29, 2023, he and Delgado entered La Plata Hall of the University of Maryland by following a group of students in. He allegedly wrote racial slurs targeted at black people on a mirror, a name plate and walls on the eighth and ninth floors. At around 2:05 a.m., he and Delgado left and took an Uber to the area of the U.S. Marine barracks in Southeast.
8. On February 6, 2024, investigators at the University of Maryland asked him if he wrote racial slurs inside the university on April 29, 2023. He told them, “I don’t doubt that I probably did. I get stupid but I don’t remember doing that.”
9. On February 8, 2024, a University of Maryland Police Department detective applied for charges and a criminal summons was issued for him and Delgado.
10. He was 22 years old and a U.S. Marine lance corporal when he was charged on February 8, 2024 with racially-biased property damage and trespassing. On March 22, 2024, he and Delgado will appear at Prince George’s County District Court in Hyattsville, Maryland.