Shaylee Mejia's death is listed as an "accident" from a prior "blunt force trauma," with investigators looking at reports the teen fell down some stairs at a party the night she was hospitalized.
The LA deputy medical examiner has ruled her death an accident caused by sequelae of blunt head trauma - but her mom Maria Juarez has blamed a violent fight caught on camera days before.
A 16-year-old girl who died more than a week after a violent fight at her high school in South Los Angeles suffered “accidental” blunt force trauma to her head, a medical official said Tuesday. Cellphone video of the fight at Manual Arts High School on March 5 shows Shaylee Mejia hitting her head against a […]
Shaylee Mejia, 16, died days after a fight at Manual Arts High School in South Los Angeles. Her mother says school officials failed to respond to dangerous bullying.