Sometimes students do not see the consequences of a school fight. It could be tragic as in this case. Please read and think; is a fight worth a human life???
The sophomore who died shortly after a confrontation inside a bathroom at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school has been identified as Amy Joyner-Francis, police said Friday.
Students were surprised to hear about the girl’s death, saying the school is not known for being a trouble spot. Records show there have been 14 reported fights there last school year. Students who knew about the fight said they believe it stemmed from a dispute over a boy.
Police have not said what caused the 16-year-old’s death, but school and city officials said Thursday that she died shortly after a “physical altercation” with two students at Howard High School of Technology. Police did say a school resource officer called EMS at 8:18 a.m. Thursday for a student complaining of head and chest pain, and that the call quickly escalated to a report of CPR in progress. Joyner-Francis died a short time later at a nearby hospital.
“Several female students were involved in a physical altercation at approximately 8:15 a.m. this morning, in a main floor girls’bathroom, just at the time classes began for the day,” the school district said in a statement.
Shauntea Bellamy cried …. “It hurts when you know her personally and she’s not one of my students who are out there in the streets like that,” he said.
Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams said police were interviewing suspects Thursday evening. He added that “a lot of families were destroyed today.”
Published at 2:13 PM EDT on Apr 22, 2016