Middle school student hospitalized after fight in cafeteria, SC officials say
A student is in the hospital after a fight at a South Carolina middle school, officials say.
The student was engaged in a fight with another student in the cafeteria at Colleton County Middle School on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Colleton County School District.
Weapons weren’t involved and staff quickly separated the students and ended the fight, the statement says.
One of the students was given “immediate medical treatment” and then taken to the Medical University of South Carolina, according to the statement.
In March, a fifth-grade student at Forest Hills Elementary School, which is in the same district, died of what officials called “natural causes” after a fight in a classroom, McClatchy News reported.
Autopsy results addressed speculations that the girl, 10-year-old Raniya Wright, died from injuries from the fight and determined the cause of death was “a tangle of abnormal blood vessels in the brain,” McClatchy News reported.
But Wright’s mother and her attorneys said in May that they “are continuing their own investigation” into what led to the girl’s death, according to McClatchy News.
The other student involved in Monday’s fight was “referred to law enforcement,” the statement says, and the district is working with the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office to investigate the incident.
“Our thoughts are with the injured student and her family,” the statement says. “Violence has no place in Colleton County schools, and we all share in the responsibility for keeping our schools safe.”
This story was originally published December 16, 2019 at 3:17 PM.
