{"id":481930,"date":"2026-10-01T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481930\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:04:08","slug":"student-dies-after-reported-fight-fall-from-four-story-california-school-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481930\/","title":{"rendered":"Student dies after reported fight, fall from four-story California school building"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (WKRC) \u2014 A student died after falling from a four-story building Wednesday at Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles\u2019 Highland Park neighborhood, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Per Fox 11<\/a>, Los Angeles Fire Department crews were called to the campus shortly before 1 p.m. and took the 18-year-old male student to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police. <\/p>\n

The school was locked down for nearly three hours as investigators worked at the scene. Los Angeles Unified School District officials said the campus reopened after law enforcement gave clearance.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the death. The student\u2019s name has not been released.<\/p>\n

Witnesses told local outlets they believed the student had been involved in an altercation before the fall. Video obtained by Fox 11 shows a fight inside a classroom. One of the students, who was continuously punched, left the classroom, grabbed a balcony railing and lifted himself over the side. <\/p>\n

Jessica Gomez, a parent at the school, said she immediately called her children after learning of the emergency.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart was racing,\u201d Gomez told KABC-TV<\/a>. \u201cI had to call my children to see if they were OK because no parent wants to have that phone call saying that your son or daughter unfortunately died.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles School Police Department and the fire department are also investigating. Fox 11 reported that there have been no charges or arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (WKRC) \u2014 A student died after falling from a four-story building Wednesday at Benjamin Franklin High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-481930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481930","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=481930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}