Pray for injured fifth-grader airlifted after school fight, SC school district says
UPDATE Wednesday 11 a.m.: The fifth-grade girl died Wednesday morning, according to the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office.
A South Carolina school district has asked for prayers for a fifth-grade girl a day after she was airlifted to a hospital following an elementary school fight Monday.
The Colleton County School District said on its Facebook page Monday that the girl suffered injuries that were so significant, she had to be flown to a hospital in Charleston after the fight.
She remains hospitalized and is “unresponsive,” according to a GoFundMe account seeking donations for the girl’s family.
Officials at the Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Hospital said the girl is listed in “critical condition,” WCIV reported.
On Tuesday, the school district provided a brief update on Facebook, saying district and school staff visited with the girl’s family.
“We ask the community to continue to keep the student and their family (in) your thoughts and prayers,” the school district’s post said.
The fight occurred in a classroom at Forest Hills Elementary School, according to the school district’s initial post Monday.
The school district said: “School administrators promptly secured the scene, ended the fight and called emergency medical services to the school.”
Another student was suspended, the school district said Monday.
The Colleton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating what it called “an assault” in a news release, and on Tuesday the school district said it was cooperating with the investigation.
“Because this is an ongoing investigation, we ask that the community understands that the information we can share is limited,” the district said on Facebook on Tuesday.
The school district said the district crisis response team visited the elementary school Tuesday to “offer support services to students and staff,” according to the post.
In the first eight hours of the GoFundMe, $3,595 of the campaign’s $5,000 goal had been raised on 130 donations.
This story was originally published March 26, 2019 at 7:29 PM.
