Police investigating how an Oklahoma 16-year-old died after a school fight



After a 16-year-old died after a fight at an Oklahoma school, police are investigating why they weren’t notified. NBC’s Rehema Ellis reports Owasso Public Schools released a statement saying that the parents or guardians of students involved in an altercation are notified of an option to file a police report.

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33 comments

  1. โ€œ OMG WHY WONT THEY MENTION THE VICTIM CHOSE THEIR OWN PRONOUNS?? THIS IS A HATE CRIME!โ€

    Finds out the 3 attackers were black ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ๐Ÿ‘„๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

  2. Smelling like a lot of cover up and pointing fingers for a dead of a student. Why was the fight broke out? What happen to the staff member? Something is NOT RIGHT!

  3. The student that died threw water on the 3 girls that attacked them. Their own texts to a family member says they did it because they had been bullied in the past. Not sure why that is being withheld from this video. Along with the student describing their own injuries as "scrapes and bruises" in those same texts

  4. Wouldn't be surprised if the perps were apart of the 'minority* and this is why no information is being shared

  5. Before I became an engineer I enjoyed teaching math and coaching in the 90's. After retiring as an engineer, I decided to do some substitute teaching at the same school. I was horrified.
    I was attacked by a female student for picking up her phone per school policy. Since she attacked me in the hall there was a video of the attack. The principal did nothing, so I complained to the principal. He then had me fired. As a coach in the 90's I broke up fights, but when I started substitute teaching I was told no teacher was to break up fights, because we were not trained to break up fights. I am guessing the teacher is in trouble for breaking up the fight in the bathroom.
    Parents don't understand the system. The superintendent works for the school board so his objectives are to stay within the law and make the school board happy.
    The principal's objective is to have parents of troubled students not complain to the superintendent. So they do very little to discipline those students. So the teacher receives very little support from the principal, when they try to discipline those students. So those students do whatever they want. I feel sorry for the normal students to have to put up with violent students.
    Until the parents of normal students ask the school board to make all students held accountable for their actions this will happen again.

  6. Three girls attacked NEX and the school did nothing!!!! The bullying had been ongoing and led to this childโ€™s DEATH and the SCHOOL DID NOTHING !!!

  7. Any description of the suspects?

  8. Stop bullying eachother stop that's or teacher should stand against bullying it's not bullying it's a ragging, stop this non sense things one day will come when teacher not spare from bullying likes die… teacher could be stop bullying could be…๐Ÿ˜ข

  9. From what I understand is she kept trying to use the wrong bathroom over n over again and that's why the fight started

  10. ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿค๐Ÿค

  11. This wasnt a "fight", it was a bunch of white girls ganging up and beating on a straight A non-binary student, and when that student didn't get the medical attention they need, they died, this was murder, all those girls should be charged with murder. And the school should be held accountable for not getting them the medical attention they needed, resulting in their death.

  12. It wasn't a fight.
    It was a murder.

  13. More likely attacked and murdered by a group. That's how they work

  14. How TF can you give nearly two and a half minutes of reporting on the murder of Nex Benedict and completely neglect to mention that this child was non-binary and the apparent target of a hate crime???? JFC, do better!

  15. The whole country is becoming a cesspool!

  16. It's not up to the school to file a police report … it's up to the parents; it is their child, their choice.

  17. School fight? The kid was beaten to death. No fight happened.

  18. The student was "non binary" which means they were at liberty to be offended by whatever pronoun you used to refer to them.

  19. Brain bleed? Iโ€™m so tired of violence among kids! All kinds of causes. Parents may have been afraid to file a report depending on others involved.

  20. Oklahoma schools like to sweep incidents under the rug. They consistently fail to report criminal activity to police.

  21. Yea and the left will fight tooth and nail to refuse parents choice to send their kids to a private school with the taxes they pay to the public schools.

  22. Public schools are so dangerous, HOMESCHOOL is the only way to educate children now.

  23. As a trans women all i can say is everything starts at home, kids dont just wake up wanting to bully kids to the death smh๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

  24. The amount of pure hatred and intolerance in this country is appalling. In many cases the parents are responsible for bringing up children brought up to be bigots, prejudiced and apathetic. Just sad how some people suffer at the hands of those who have such a mindset. ๐Ÿ’€

  25. "An Ambulance isn't needed, but you should take your kid to the hospital"

    I.E. "We don't want people blaming us for a hospital visit."

  26. Hold the kid accountable for murder and the parents accountable for raising a murderer. ๐Ÿคท

  27. Question 1: are the schools required to file a police report if parents choose not to? Question 2: does the school need to file a police report if parents choose to do so? The schoolโ€™s statements sound like itโ€™s not a requirement. Iโ€™m assuming the parents opted to not file a report (at least initially ). Is that correct?

  28. We can't expect our children to not use violence to solve conflict when they see adults use violence and the threat of violence against each other every day.

  29. Republidunces always point to the senseless violence in the Democratic cities while underplaying the senseless violence that happenes in their own backwater hick towns and suburbs.

  30. Bro loses one fight and 42% himself ๐Ÿ˜‚