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11-Year-Old Girl DIES After Fight With Classmate Over Boy
Health officials and police in Long Beach, Calif., are trying to determine how an 11-year-old girl died after getting into a fight with another girl over a boy.
Joanna Ramos, a fifth grader at Willard Elementary School, died Friday night in the hospital after complaining of a headache.
“She was so nice to me; she was like a sister to me,” said classmate Stephanie Soltero, crying. “They were fighting over a boy, just for a boy. It’s just stupid.”
The two girls and seven onlookers went to an alley off campus after school on Friday, where they had planned to fight, according to Deputy Chief Robert Luna of the Long Beach Police Department. No weapons were used and no one was knocked to the ground.
Police are waiting for autopsy results to determine Ramos’ cause of death.
Ramos’ classmate said she was complaining about a pain in her head during an after-school program.
“She was crying and saying her head was hurting. She said to the supervisor, the principal on call, she told them that my head was hurting and then she called the parents and the parents took her to the hospital,” classmate Justin Robert King Jr. said.
Ramos was unconscious and not breathing when family members took her to the hospital at about 5:50 p.m., according to police. She was rushed into surgery but pronounced dead three hours later.
“There are times when words do not convey a sense of sadness and loss that we feel. This was one of those times. Our hearts go out to the families affected by this tragic event yesterday. It resulted in the death of an 11-year-old girl from Long Beach. It’s hard to understand how this can happen. If you’re like me, you’re also thinking of your own children, perhaps your daughter or your granddaughter, and you get a sense of how precious life really is,” Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster said Saturday.
Outside Willard Elementary School, friends left balloons, candles, stuffed animals, flowers and letters to Ramos.
ABC News affiliate KABC contributed to this report.
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Wezzy
February 27, 2012 at 9:24 am
May the soul of this young one rest in peace and hope she didn’t die from the beating…! I am imagining my daughter getting into such a ****** act at school…! Strange how women get into relationships at such an early age…
Uncle p
February 27, 2012 at 9:27 am
Am sorry for the other girl who’s alive, it could be that she was right,but circmstance. parents should try to bring up children in a proper way with outstanding moral innocence. ” charity bigins at home” i guess fighting over boyfriends begins at school
NI ZEE!!!
February 27, 2012 at 9:39 am
Starting to teach our children early about life and its consequences will help them realise themselves as human beings. Stick to the truth and it shall set you free
Joseph
February 27, 2012 at 9:45 am
So young,girls need to be taught that some of these issues are too early for them,MHSRP!!!
Chama Febie
February 27, 2012 at 9:54 am
America for you hahahaha at 11 fighting for a boy??????????????? parents teach your children good morals
bobo
February 27, 2012 at 9:54 am
too bad for the young girl
sunny
February 27, 2012 at 10:02 am
i dnt thnk it was th fight. .no one was knckd to th ground nd sh cmplaind of a headache earlia. .shz nt th first case av hed of sum1 dyn aftr a headache. .pipo exagarate stuf
Chama Febie
February 27, 2012 at 10:31 am
@sunny,i think you’re right the’re just exagarating,the girl just died of headache not because of fighting.media likes reporting lies
Jozmal
February 27, 2012 at 10:59 am
Ohh No!! May her soul rest in peace.
Ajayi Adeola
February 27, 2012 at 11:03 am
may her soul rest in peace
Lozi Bull,Litilimbwa
February 27, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Too bad for her,it happen,
There’s always time for everything.
May Her Soul Rest In Peace.
boyd
February 27, 2012 at 5:38 pm
lm really sorry to the parents of the deceased girl.may the almight God strengthen you in this trying moments
Drewman
February 27, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Latinos, what do you expect? Born criminals.
shimpundu
February 27, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Headahe,fight or not its stil sad to have lost life at such a tender age,mhsrip.
Wanu Ngwee
February 27, 2012 at 7:56 pm
So bad! But why are such things becoming so common? Recently authorities in South Africa suspended and arrested a school principal after two girls were seen fighting over him. And one of these 12-year-old girls confessed to having had a relationship with this principal for at least 2 years!! What a shame!
Jeremy good luck mugabe
February 27, 2012 at 8:34 pm
it was a fight over another girl. she was a lesbian. must be witches.
umu zedian
February 27, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Did you say “they were fighting for a boy?” Even young ones knows how sweet… is & some fucking crazy animal comes to promote homosexual????
She died of depression, she was depressed about the boy who was taken away from her.