12-Year-Old Arrested for School Bullying Murder

0:00It's April 3rd, from your city to your ears. This is Canada News today, powered by AI. A 12-year-old got arrested for murder after a classmate died from a blow to the head with a metal water bottle at a Los Angeles school. This ties back to the February 17th incident at Rezita Charter High School, where 12-year-old Kimberly Zavilleta Chukipa passed away on. February 25th, Kimberly was helping her older sister during a hallway, bullying attack when she got hit. She went to Valley Presbyterian Hospital that day, got released, but three days later ended up at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital in a coma for. Emergency brain surgery to stop bleeding, tragically she didn't make it. The family have reported months of bullying, harassment, and attacks on the sisters to school officials, but nothing changed. Now they're pushing hard for answers on why adults didn't step in sooner. The family's attorney says the arrest is just a start, but the school district bears real blame for ignoring warnings.

1:00L.A. unified school district isn't commenting due to ongoing legal stuff, and the family might even sue the first hospital too. Meanwhile, a similar heartbreaking case hit Georgia last month, where another 12-year-old girl died after a street fight near her school bus stop. These stories scream for better protection in schools everywhere.