A Missouri teen who suffered severe head injuries after being slammed to the pavement during a scuffle had been suspended from school the day before for being involved in another brawl, new reports reveal.
On March 8th, Kaylee Gein, 16, suffered a skull fracture and a brain bleed at the hands of a 15-year-old girl in a fight that went viral online. preceded According to sources, the fight between Gain and his opponent’s friend resulted in new york post officet.
“It is unclear whether Gein was the attacker or the target in the earlier battle,” the newspaper noted.
The magazine added that officials said Kaylee and the girl who was seen banging her head on the ground were members of “two rival friend groups” at Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis.
Defense attorney Greg Smith said the 15-year-old fighter was being held in a juvenile detention center on suspicion of assault causing serious bodily injury, but had no history of violence.
Shocking video of the devastating brawl, which took place about a mile from the high school, shows the 15-year-old girl slamming Cayley’s head into the road after Cayley threw the first punch. The video shows several teenagers fighting senseless.
Many people online were outraged by the video of the fight, which was presumably filmed by another student, and claimed that Kaylee’s opponent went too far in cracking the boy’s skull in retaliation.
Caylee’s father, Clinton Gein, announced Friday that his daughter has recovered from a two-week coma.
“I am happy to share that Kaylee is breathing on her own and remains in stable condition. The best news so far is that we have moved her out of the ICU,” he said in a written statement. wrote. update On GoFundMe. “We are truly blessed by the outpouring of support and your prayers. It means so much to us!”
Kaylee’s parents are not together, but appear to have set up two separate GoFundMes.
Her mother, April Nordstrom, also provided an update herself. Fundraising activities:
We are so happy and blessed to announce that Kaylee is now stable, breathing on her own, and has been moved out of the ICU. She still has an incredibly long journey ahead of her, but she is strong. She will update Kaylees gofundme whenever possible as changes continue to occur. We would like to thank everyone again for their support.
The video of the fight also ignited racial tensions, as Kaylee is white and the other girl is black.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told conservative commentator Benny Johnson that the girl “absolutely needs to be tried as an adult” and that he was open to filing hate crime charges.
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Missouri Gov. Andrew Bailey charges hate crime against black St. Louis student caught on video of violently assaulting white classmate Kaylee Gein until she falls into a coma and loses consciousness He said he was willing to press charges. pic.twitter.com/KaLT9oDum3
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 26, 2024
Bailey also argued that the district’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy allowed fights to occur off school grounds and after school.
“We are launching an investigation into the Hazelwood School District after a student was senselessly assaulted by another student in broad daylight,” Bailey said in a statement. statement Obtained by Associated Press. “The entire community deserves answers about how Hazelwood’s radical DEI program led to such a despicable safety flaw that left one student fighting for his life.”
Hazelwood School District is majority black, with only 2% of students being white, according to state education department data.
District Attorney Cindy Rees Ormsby said in a letter to Bailey on Tuesday that Bailey’s “obvious racial bias against the majority-minority school district is evident.”
“Again, without any official verification or concrete knowledge, the fight on March 8th was caused by HSD’s belief in the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion between female students. Do you honestly believe that all of this is the result of racial issues?” Ormsby wrote in the letter, also obtained by The Associated Press.
“Which community do you represent as Missouri’s attorney general? Do you represent all Missourians, or just white people?”
A hearing on whether to try the teen as an adult is scheduled for next week, but a petition has been posted on Change.org calling for her to be tried as a juvenile instead.
of petitionThe group, organized by a woman named Yaya Seven, identified the 15-year-old girl as Monice Descroux and claimed she was “protecting herself from harassment and bullying.”
“She is a multilingual speaker who speaks four languages, including Spanish and Korean, plays the violin in her school orchestra, plays on her school’s volleyball team, and recently enrolled in a college-level AP class due to her academic excellence. ” says the page.
“She had never been in trouble until March 8th when she was seen defending herself from harassment and bullying,” Seven continued. “Her work as an academic was tainted by the bullying she had to endure at school.”
She went on to condemn the fight and the “racial divisions” she said were instigated by Attorney General Bailey, and called for “all aspects of her life to be considered in the prosecution and sentencing.”
Seven also reported that the Decroux family had received “multiple racist death threats, with people attempting to keep them secret and release protected private information about the family and Monice.”
All of this prevents outcomes that are compassionate, fair, and just. The focus should be on praying for healing and reconciliation for both parties. Because this really was a teenage fight that shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but got completely out of control and spiraled out of control (because the community as a whole should) bullying and violence. is plaguing many communities in our region and across the country, so please think twice).
rival petition The report, hosted by Ryan Smith, says only that “based on the brutality of the assault, this should be handled in the adult court system.”
