{"id":496320,"date":"2026-02-28T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496320\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:49:08","slug":"homicide-investigation-underway-in-l-a-after-girl-dies-in-alleged-bullying-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496320\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation underway in L.A. after girl dies in alleged bullying incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a homicide investigation after a 12-year-old student died while trying to protect her sister from an alleged bullying incident at Reseda High School, NBC Los Angeles confirmed <\/a>Friday.<\/p>\n

Khimberly Zavaleta\u2019s family said the girl suffered a brain injury after she was hit in the head with a metal water bottle, thrown by another student.<\/p>\n

After spending days in a coma and undergoing surgery, the girl died at a hospital early Wednesday morning, her mother told NBCLA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m devastated. I\u2019m full of pain, thinking about how I will never see my daughter again,\u2019 Elma Chuquipa, Khimberly\u2019s mother, said in Spanish<\/p>\n

A group of students held a protest at Reseda High School Friday in support of Khimberly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all sad. Because she was the one who gave all the energy to us, because she was so happy. She was always happy. She was always smiling,\u201d said Dayari Diaz, Khimberly\u2019s friend who organized the protest with help from her mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want justice for her,\u201d Dayari, also a student at the school, said. \u201cThe school is not doing anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the deadly incident, the LA Unified School District said, while it cannot share details due to confidentiality, it was \u201cdeeply saddened by the death of a Reseda High School student.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe District remains committed to providing support to students, staff, and families affected by this loss, including counseling services and additional resources on campus,\u201d the LAUSD said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a homicide investigation after a 12-year-old student died while trying to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-496320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}