CA - Shaylee Mejia, 16, dies after sustaining injuries in alleged high school fight, South L.A. - Los Angeles, March 2024

[ifindedout]

Teen girl dies after alleged fight with bullies at South L.A. high school

A 16-year-old girl has died after her mother said she suffered severe injuries from a school fight. She claims school officials failed to stop the bullies from targeting the girl. Cell phone video …

ktla.com

Cell phone video captured a violent altercation between two teen girls in a bathroom at Manual Arts High School in South Los Angeles.

The victim, Shaylee Mejia, is seen hitting her head against a stall as she falls down at one point.

The girl’s mother, Maria Juarez, is devastated and believes her daughter died as a result of that bathroom fight.

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On March 5, Juarez said her daughter was involved in a school fight but did not notify her because she didn’t want to cause worry. Juarez is a housekeeper and the family’s sole provider so Mejia didn’t want her mother to lose any work hours.
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Later that week, she went to a party on Saturday night [March 9] and that was the last time Juarez would see her daughter alive.

She was told her daughter had fainted at the party and was rushed to the hospital by a friend. Doctors said she suffered from a fatal hemorrhage due to brain injuries.

Mejia never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead six days later on March 15.

 

[PrairieWind]

It is going to be a little hard for the school to say they were not aware that those fights happened.

 

[ifindedout]

Ruled accidental blunt head trauma by ME's initial report.

Los Angeles student involved in fight died of ‘accidental’ blunt head trauma: examiner

A 16-year-old girl who died more than a week after a violent fight at her high school in South Los Angeles suffered “accidental” blunt force trauma to her head, a medical official said …

ktla.com

Cellphone video of the fight at Manual Arts High School on March 5 shows Shaylee Mejia hitting her head against a bathroom stall and falling.

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On Tuesday, a County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s initial report described the March 15 death as “accidental” and resulting from “Sequelae of blunt head trauma.”

No further notes were found on the report.

 

[LaborDayRN]

These days the fights between students seem particularly violent. So much has changed since I was in high school. Such senseless loss of life.

My grandchildren aren't old enough for school yet but it really worries me what the world will be like when they are in high school.....