A Missouri teen who continued to fight for her life after hitting her head on the sidewalk earlier this month was suspended from school the day before for scuffling with another student, The Post has learned.
Kaylee Gein, 16, suffered a skull fracture and a brain bleed and was in a coma for two weeks after an encounter with another teenage girl about a mile away from Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis on March 8. It became a state.
Her family said Friday that her condition is now stable and she has been moved from the intensive care unit, but it is unclear whether she has regained consciousness.
The extent of the brain damage she sustained also remains unknown.
Sources said the teenager who had been involved in the altercation the day before was friends with the student, who then slammed her head on the pavement, causing her to lose consciousness and convulse.
It is unclear whether Gein was the attacker or the target in the earlier battle.
Officials said Gein and the combatant were being held in a juvenile facility on felony assault charges and were members of two rival fraternity groups at the school.
Greg Smith, the minor’s attorney, said he had no history of violence before the confrontation with Gein, and that he was an excellent violinist and good student.
“She’s the kind of woman you want in a 15-year-old girl,” Smith told the Post about the girl accused of hitting Caylee in the head.
The lawyer said his client’s character had been misinterpreted after the video went viral, while Gein’s friends and family tore her apart for the violent assault.
Prosecutors will ask at a hearing next week to have the jailed boy’s case removed from juvenile court so she can be tried as an adult.
Smith said her parents are “deadly afraid” of the lawsuit against her. “They want her girlfriend to go back to her home,” he said.
Two separate GoFundme accounts posted on behalf of Gein’s parents, who are now separated, have raised nearly $400,000.
Brian Kemmerer, a lawyer representing Gein’s family, declined to comment.
Hazelwood High School did not respond to a request for comment.
