Police: 16-year-old girl dead after fight at Delaware high school
People stood outside Howard High School of Technology today, in Wilmington, Del. A 16-year-old sophomore died today following a fight in a Delaware high school girl’s restroom, city officials said. (Suchat Pederson/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP)
WILMINGTON, Del. » A 16-year-old sophomore died today following a fight in a Delaware high school girl’s restroom, city officials said.
The fight involved multiple people at Howard High School of Technology, said Alexandra Coppadge, a spokeswoman for Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams.
Officers were called to the school as students were arriving for the day and the girl was flown to A.I. DuPont Children’s Hospital in critical condition, police spokeswoman Sgt. Andrea Janvier said. She said police were expected to be at the school for several hours.
News media outlets quoted Police Chief Bobby Cummings as saying that two female students were taken to police headquarters for questioning. Howard isn’t known as a violent school and Cummings said he did not know of any other problems in recent days.
“My heart bleeds for the family,” Mayor Dennis Williams told a news conference.
State agencies will help provide support for those affected by the tragedy, Gov. Jack Markell said in a statement.
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Students at the school were dismissed today and officials had not determined yet whether classes would be held Friday, media outlets reported.
A mayoral debate on public safety scheduled to take place at the school tonight has been canceled.
8 responses to “Police: 16-year-old girl dead after fight at Delaware high school”
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Another worthless story by S/A. No details about what happened. Was this a race issue? Gang related? Theft? Why even print the story?
They print it so that they can splash the headline, insinuating it might be something local. Even when you find out it wasn’t a local story, it still serves the purpose of bashing schools.
There’s a local placed called Delaware?
Do you understand that the Associated Press is not the SA?
shouldn’t all black lives matter?
no protests, no marches, no media grandstanding photo ops for jackson, sharpton or obama.
No, nothing like that. Just you smugly popping a beer to celebrate the fact that a young girl died so you could express your bigotry with a lame twitism.
st1d You are a racist. A young girl died and that’s all you can say. What if it happened to one of your love ones?
Couldn’t happen. I’m sure no one he cares about is black.