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<\/p>\nA family is mourning the loss of their 12-year-old daughter after she was struck in the head with a metal water bottle at her Los Angeles school.<\/p>\n
A memorial for 12-year-old Khimberly continues to grow outside of Reseda Charter High School. Her family said she died after medical complications stemming from what her family described as a bullying incident earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I feel very bad, destroyed,” her mother, Elma Chuquita, said in Spanish. “It’s not easy to lose a child. It’s not easy to see your child dying in a bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Friends and family created a memorial for 12-year-old Khimberly outside of Reseda Charter High School.<\/p>\n
CBS LA<\/p>\n
Chuquita said she was attacked at school on Tuesday, Feb. 17. Days after she was struck in the head with a metal bottle, Khimberly was rushed to the hospital, where doctors discovered severe bleeding in her brain. She died despite multiple emergency surgeries and life support.<\/p>\n
“I was crying. All of her close friends, we were crying.\u00a0 ” friend Dayari Diaz said. “She always cared about me and my friends.”<\/p>\n
Khimberly’s friends and family are demanding justice. They want the student responsible, as well as any teachers or staff who failed to intervene, to be held accountable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Khimberly’s mom and classmates are also calling for stronger measures to prevent bullying and protect students.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“What is happening, there are many schools, and I am not the only mother fighting for justice for her child,” Chuquita said in Spanish. “I know the principal and teachers are also parents, and no one would want to lose a child in this way.”<\/p>\n
In a statement, a Los Angeles Unified School District spokesperson said the incident “deeply saddened” administrators.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts and condolences are with the student’s family, friends, and the entire school community,” the spokesperson said. “The District takes the safety and well-being of our students very seriously. We are currently cooperating with law enforcement in connection with this incident.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department said they are investigating this case as a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family is mourning the loss of their 12-year-old daughter after she was struck in the head with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-197752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}