16 Year Old Female Student Murdered in School Bathroom Over a Boy

A 16-year-old girl has died after getting into a fight with another girl over a boy at a  school in Delaware. Officials have not named the girl, but friends and sources close to the  investigation identified her as Amy Inita  Joyner-Francis. Joyner-Francis was jumped by a gang of  bullies in her school's bathroom Thursday morning.

Officials said the fight broke out around  8.15am before classes at Howard High  School of Technology, a vocational school  in Wilmington, Delaware.



Students who witnessed the deadly scuffle said that the 16-year-old and her female classmate started fighting in one of the women's bathrooms over a boy, when a gang of other girls jumped the victim. At one point, someone banged her head  on a sink, according to Wilson, a witness who spoke with ABC.

"She was in a stall when the fight  broke out and spoke with the local news  station after leaving school".

'She was fighting a girl, and then that's  when all these other girls started banking  her -like jumping her - and she hit her head on the sink,' Wilson said. The victim was flown to A.I. DuPont  Children's Hospital in critical condition,  where she was later pronounced dead.The cause of death has not been confirmed.

News media outlets quoted Police Chief  Bobby Cummings as saying the female students have been taken to police  headquarters for questioning.

'My heart bleeds for the family,' Mayor Dennis Williams told a news conference.




ABC