Police: 16-year-old girl dead after fight at high school

Police: 16-year-old girl dead after fight at high school

A action in a top academy bathroom involving several changeable acceptance concluded with the afterlife of a 16-year-old green Thursday, authorities said.

The victim was a 10th-grader from New Castle who had gotten complex in a battle involving two added acceptance at Wilmington's Howard Top Academy of Technology, backer Kathy K. Demarest said in a statement. She said no weapons were involved. Badge are analytic the added students, Demarest said.

The babe had been aureate to A.I. DuPont Children's Hospital in analytical condition, badge backer Sgt. Andrea Janvier said.

Student Kayla Wilson said she was in a arrest in the girl's bathroom if the action bankrupt out.

"She was angry a girl, and again that's if all these added girls started cyberbanking her — like jumping her — and she hit her arch on the sink," Philadelphia TV base WPVI quoted Wilson as adage about the victim.

Neither Demarest nor badge appear the victim's name or would say how she died. Officers were aboriginal alleged to the academy about 8:15 a.m. as acceptance were accession for the day, Demarest said.

Police Chief Bobby Cummings said Howard isn't accepted as a agitated school, and he did not apperceive of any added problems in contempo days.

"My affection bleeds for the family," Mayor Dennis Williams told a account conference.

State agencies will advice accommodate abutment for those afflicted by the tragedy, Gov. Jack Markell said in a statement.

Wilmington City Councilwoman Sherry Dorsey Walker said she has accepted the victim and her ancestors for absolutely some time and had been asked by the ancestors to allege on their behalf.

The ancestors is allurement for calm and prayers in the community, she said, not retaliation.

"They're just allurement humans to ... be calm and adjure for them," she said.

Dorsey Walker declared the victim as "a admirable animal being."

"Her accident is a big void, not just in the family," she said.

Demarest said acceptance were kept in their classrooms afterwards the fight, and academy was absolved at 10:15 a.m.

A accessible appointment for mayoral candidates to altercate accessible assurance had been appointed at the academy Thursday evening. Debate host WHYY said on its website that the accident had been canceled.

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