A 16-year-old girl died Thursday after she was assaulted in a high school bathroom in Wilmington, Del., authorities said.
A fight among several female students broke out at about 8:15 a.m. Thursday in a girls’ bathroom at Wilmington’s Howard High School of Technology, according to school officials. No weapons were involved, but the 16-year-old sophomore sustained serious injuries and was taken by helicopter to Alfred I. duPont Hospital in Wilmington, where she died.
The name of the deceased student has not been released. School officials said that two other female students were involved in the incident and both are being questioned by Wilmington police.
Howard students told WPVI-TV, a Philadelphia station, that the fight was over a boy. One student told the station that she was in the bathroom when the fight began:
“She was fighting a girl, and then that’s when all these other girls started banging her — like jumping her — and she hit her head on the sink,” the student said.
