Yeah yeah yeah..all I see is these hispanic and white groups celebrate when a Black kid dies.
Delaware H.S. student gets jumped in the bathroom and she died #RipAmy
Yeah yeah yeah..all I see is these hispanic and white groups celebrate when a Black kid dies.
the girl that died is probably Hispanic, as well as some of the assailants.
people got mad at me for pointing this out earlier, but this is why I pointed it out.
Hopeofmypeople
Veteran
Have you seen a pic of the girl that died you dumbfukk? In what way does she look like a spic?
GetInTheTruck
Member
You've been a a terrible poster for so long, it's gotta be some type of record.
Family Man
Banned
Right. You can see how these bleeding hearts, supposedly problack, muthaphuckas would rather ride for the black criminal over the black victim.
I already got my kids lined up for a Montessori school when it's time. No way I'm sending them to public school.
you need to get out more.
Man On Fire
All Star
nikka you are white, what you talking about "our" people for
Somebody neg this agent for me please
Chief: 'Charges will be filed' in Howard High death
Chief: 'Charges will be filed' in Howard High death
Wilmington Police Chief Bobby Cummings, speaking for the first time since the deadly assault of 16-year-old Amy Inita Joyner-Francis at Howard High School of Technology last week, assured the community Monday night that charges will be filed against those responsible.
"We hope to have some closure by the end of this week," Cummings told a crowd of nearly 100 people at a town hall meeting at Stubbs Elementary School.
No charges have been filed, but Cummings said the Police Department and the state Office of the Attorney General have three individuals who are of interest in the incident.
"We know that charges will be filed," Cummings said. He said the investigation is ongoing to determine how severe those charges will be.
Police have released few details about the deadly brawl or identified a motive. Investigators continue to comb through social media posts, phone communications and bring in witnesses for interviews, Cummings said.
"The family sincerely appreciates the tremendous outpouring of love and concern that they have received during this time," according to the obituary.
So far, there have been two vigils at the high school to honor Joyner-Francis. Administrators from New Castle County Vo-Tech School District said Monday they will hold private meetings for parents over the coming two days in the wake of Joyner-Francis' death.
The meetings will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and will not be open to the public. Parents will be required to sign in at the door to gain access to the auditorium, according to officials. The meetings span two days to accommodate the large number of parents and attendees expected.
Tuesday night will be for students in grades 10 and 11; Wednesday will be for grades 9 and 12.
Students did go to school Friday for a shortened day during which grief counseling was offered.
greeted by community members and friends outside school doors offering hugs. Few details have been released about Joyner-Francis' death, other than to say she was seriously assaulted by a number of female classmates in the girls' restroom just as class was starting Thursday.
"Please understand that this is not a problem in one school in one district in one community or in one state, and we all have to work together to find a solution to help our kids and our families and our communities to address the bullying and violence," said Patricia Dailey Lewis, CEO of the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children, speaking at the town hall meeting Monday.
Ashley Biden, daughter of Vice President Joe Biden and director of the Delaware Center for Justice, attended the meeting because she said Joyner-Francis' death shook her to her core.
“This is really, in my mind, creating those safe spaces for our community,” said Biden, who said she was bullied as a teen.
Biden said she is inspired to join with other organizations to create peer mentoring for teens at Delaware schools, to give students an outlet to talk about the issues.
Rumblings and rumors about what took place in the high school restroom continue to spread, even reaching the ears of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who held a rally in downtown Wilmington on Monday. She called the news "heartbreaking" and said the country must do more to work with young people "who I think are truly being put at risk."
"We can't let this go on. We've got to, from a very early age, help our children and then help young people understand that fighting doesn't solve things," Clinton said. "We've got to work with them."
Most of the attendees at Monday's meeting were community members and adults who spoke out about the need for parents to step in and do more to discipline their children so that they don't turn to violence. But 15-year-old Alexandrea Rogers, a sophomore at Howard, spoke with a message of peace and love for her school.
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Howard High School of Technology sophomore Alexandrea Rogers speaks to community members at a community town hall meeting on the death of Howard student Amy Inita Joyner-Francis at Stubbs Elementary School on Monday evening. (Photo: KYLE GRANTHAM/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
"It is important to teach our younger siblings and little kids not to fight," said Rogers, who said she was a friend of Joyner-Francis'. "We shouldn't have waited for this tragedy to happen; we should have just loved each other from the start."
The school has asked that those wishing to offer support and resources direct their offers to the superintendent's office at (302) 995-8050.
Students will not be in school Tuesday for the Delaware primary election but will return Wednesday for a regular schedule.
Chief: 'Charges will be filed' in Howard High death
Wilmington Police Chief Bobby Cummings, speaking for the first time since the deadly assault of 16-year-old Amy Inita Joyner-Francis at Howard High School of Technology last week, assured the community Monday night that charges will be filed against those responsible.
"We hope to have some closure by the end of this week," Cummings told a crowd of nearly 100 people at a town hall meeting at Stubbs Elementary School.
No charges have been filed, but Cummings said the Police Department and the state Office of the Attorney General have three individuals who are of interest in the incident.
"We know that charges will be filed," Cummings said. He said the investigation is ongoing to determine how severe those charges will be.
Police have released few details about the deadly brawl or identified a motive. Investigators continue to comb through social media posts, phone communications and bring in witnesses for interviews, Cummings said.
"The family sincerely appreciates the tremendous outpouring of love and concern that they have received during this time," according to the obituary.
So far, there have been two vigils at the high school to honor Joyner-Francis. Administrators from New Castle County Vo-Tech School District said Monday they will hold private meetings for parents over the coming two days in the wake of Joyner-Francis' death.
The meetings will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and will not be open to the public. Parents will be required to sign in at the door to gain access to the auditorium, according to officials. The meetings span two days to accommodate the large number of parents and attendees expected.
Tuesday night will be for students in grades 10 and 11; Wednesday will be for grades 9 and 12.
Students did go to school Friday for a shortened day during which grief counseling was offered.
greeted by community members and friends outside school doors offering hugs. Few details have been released about Joyner-Francis' death, other than to say she was seriously assaulted by a number of female classmates in the girls' restroom just as class was starting Thursday.
"Please understand that this is not a problem in one school in one district in one community or in one state, and we all have to work together to find a solution to help our kids and our families and our communities to address the bullying and violence," said Patricia Dailey Lewis, CEO of the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children, speaking at the town hall meeting Monday.
Ashley Biden, daughter of Vice President Joe Biden and director of the Delaware Center for Justice, attended the meeting because she said Joyner-Francis' death shook her to her core.
“This is really, in my mind, creating those safe spaces for our community,” said Biden, who said she was bullied as a teen.
Biden said she is inspired to join with other organizations to create peer mentoring for teens at Delaware schools, to give students an outlet to talk about the issues.
Rumblings and rumors about what took place in the high school restroom continue to spread, even reaching the ears of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who held a rally in downtown Wilmington on Monday. She called the news "heartbreaking" and said the country must do more to work with young people "who I think are truly being put at risk."
"We can't let this go on. We've got to, from a very early age, help our children and then help young people understand that fighting doesn't solve things," Clinton said. "We've got to work with them."
Most of the attendees at Monday's meeting were community members and adults who spoke out about the need for parents to step in and do more to discipline their children so that they don't turn to violence. But 15-year-old Alexandrea Rogers, a sophomore at Howard, spoke with a message of peace and love for her school.
Howard High School of Technology sophomore Alexandrea Rogers speaks to community members at a community town hall meeting on the death of Howard student Amy Inita Joyner-Francis at Stubbs Elementary School on Monday evening. (Photo: KYLE GRANTHAM/THE NEWS JOURNAL)
"It is important to teach our younger siblings and little kids not to fight," said Rogers, who said she was a friend of Joyner-Francis'. "We shouldn't have waited for this tragedy to happen; we should have just loved each other from the start."
The school has asked that those wishing to offer support and resources direct their offers to the superintendent's office at (302) 995-8050.
Students will not be in school Tuesday for the Delaware primary election but will return Wednesday for a regular schedule.
They got off light.
3 teens charged in death of Howard High School student
The DOJ said only one girl physically hit Amy; they will push for her to be tried as an adult
Amy Inita Joyner-Francis, the 16-year-old fatally assaulted in the girls bathroom at Howard High School of Technology, did not die of injuries sustained in the beating, but from a pre-existing heart condition exacerbated by the attack.
The state Attorney General's Office is pushing to have one of three girls involved tried as an adult. Trinity Carr, 16, seen in video punchingJoyner-Francis in the head and chest, is charged with criminally negligent homicide, punishable by up to eight years in prison.
The two other girls, Zion Snow and Chakeira Wright, will be charged with third-degree criminal conspiracy, punishable by up to one year in prison.
Investigators determined the April 21 fight was a planned confrontation in the girl's bathroom, but only one girl – Carr – actually hit Amy, according to a statement by the Attorney General's Office.
The fight was filmed, according to court documents, and shows Carr hitting Amy repeatedly in the head and torso area with "what appears to be a closed fist."
The video shows Carr leave and Amy try to stand up; then Amy appears disoriented and collapses back onto the floor, the court documents show. When paramedics found her, she was unresponsive and shortly after went into cardiac arrest.
Communication between the three girls showed that they planned the assault in the 20 hours prior to the attack, according to court documents. The three girls followed Amy into the bathroom and then began the assault, court papers say.
Because neither of the other two girls hit Amy nor had prior arrests, they will be tried as juveniles in Family Court.
The state Medical Examiner's Office played a large role in deciding on the charges, the Attorney General's Office said. The autopsy determined Amy died of "sudden cardiac death due to large atrial septal defect with a contributing factor of physical and emotional stress due to physical assault."
An autopsy showed she did not die of blunt force trauma.
"In layman’s terms, the Medical Examiner determined that Amy died from a cardiac incident that she was vulnerable to because of a pre-existing heart condition, but the cardiac incident would not have occurred if she had not been assaulted," the statement reads.
Dr. George Moutsatsos, a New Castle County based cardiologist and president of Delaware’s branch of the American College of Cardiology, said an atrial septal defect is a hole in the wall that separates the top left and right chambers of the heart. The condition causes freshly oxygenated blood to mix with deoxygenated blood.
“You are really sending out very low oxygenated blood to the body which under stress needs a lot of oxygen,” Moutsatsos said. “She was a vulnerable person. She fell into the wrong circumstances and unfortunately no one knew this.”
The charges are a reflection of the "maximum degree permissible by Delaware law," according to the Attorney General's Office. All charges were reviewed with Amy's mother and older brother.
They come more than two weeks after the attack shook the city and state and gained national attention. Wilmington police completed their investigation Thursdayand turned over evidence to the Attorney's General Office to determine the charges. Their spokesman, Carl Kanefsky, said late Thursday the state intended to deliver charges promptly.
Judith Ritter, a professor at the Delaware Law School, said Carr's charge is a “low-level homicide.”
“What it comes down to is what would a reasonable person have recognized about the risk of death here,” she said.
Ritter said they were probably not charged with an intentional killing because a reasonable person doesn’t believe a fistfight is likely to cause death.
“It sounds like the facts may not support proof that the assailant, or assailants, intended to kill her,” Ritter said. “They probably intended to hurt her, but she died.”
While there was an outcry for immediate and swift punishment for the three girls shortly after Amy’s death, some local activists called the charges just.
“That sounds fair and balanced,” said Mahkeib Booker, who launched the local chapter of Black Lives Matter last year. Because there were no apparent signs that the girls intended to kill Amy, Booker said he would have had a problem with them being charged with first-degree murder.
“I used to jump the gun and say sentence them,” Booker said. “But I have to really look at their background and check their upbringing, who created the type of environment that would make them want to bully and beat people.”
Booker said the girls need to be punished, but it has to be an appropriate punishment.
“'Throw the book' is a typical response for those who act out of emotions,” said Ty Johnson, former president of Wilmington's Interdenominational Ministers Action Council.
Johnson said he is sure the girls did not intend to kill Amy.
“It’s not only their fault, we have failed,” he said. “Any time girls get into a bathroom and they begin to act out the way they did we have failed as a society. And we can and must do better.”
New Castle County Vo-Tech School District will "follow through with necessary actions for the students involved in the incident based on the school district's Code of Conduct," said Superintendent Vicki Gehrt in a statement Monday.
"Our responsibility is to follow school board policy and procedures for all students involved," she said. The school did not offer further comment.
Wilmington Mayor Dennis P. Williams said in a statement Monday that the Howard High incident is a tragedy.
"From the beginning, the Wilmington Police Department and the Department of Justice worked hand-and-hand to determine the appropriate charges," he said. "This is just the first step toward providing Amy’s family and our community with closure. As this process moves forward, I ask that we keep the family and loved ones of everyone involved in our thoughts and prayers.”
Friends and family described Joyner-Francis as a compassionate, soft-spoken student who always worked to disrupt violence and reduce fighting. Many said the sophomore at Howard High was never the type of girl to be caught up in high school drama. She was enrolled in the dental assistant program.
In a bookmark-sized card handed out to those who attended Amy's memorial service May 1 at St. Paul Union American Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Joyner-Francis' mom described her as "extremely beautiful, so very thoughtful, awesomely intelligent, very, very talented and definitely one of a kind."
"You are simply marvelous my dear!!!" the memorial card read. "Hugs and smooches, you will be my heart always and forever, my beautiful sweetpea."
The family has not commented publicly on the attack and has not spoken directly with the media. Through various spokespeople representing them, the family has called for peace following Amy's death, as well as an end to social media lies that spread viciously in the days following the assault. All other services honoring Amy were private.
Gyheim Fitzgerald, 17, lives across the street from Amy. Her death still troubles him, he said Monday.
"I was just hoping they caught them and hoping they got charged with something good," Fitzgerald said.
Dan Cooke, who lives across the street from Howard on Clifford Brown Walk and has a teenage son, said parents need to monitor their kids on social media. He said he regularly views his 14-year-old's SnapChat and Instagram accounts.
Fake accounts on social media sites like Twitter and Instagram impersonated people believed to be involved in the attack. Police did not confirm any photos or videos directly, but said they were reviewing social media as part of the investigation.
“The social media is killing our kids,” Cooke said. “It starts at home, parents need to get more involved with what their children are doing.”
Carr “has to deal with this trauma the rest of her life," Cooke said, "but then again you have to be held responsible for what you do,” he said.
Wilmington Police Chief Bobby Cummings said in the week following the attack, investigators had more than 3,000 pages of data to review, as well as interviews and other forms on online communication. Experts said verifying social media accounts and determining the validity of posts, texts and other online communication can take weeks.
Ritter, the law professor, said while it may have taken police longer to go through the electronic communication, it also gives them insight into what the assailants may have been thinking.
"In some ways, it gives them some more evidence of what's in the mind of the defendants, which is usually hard to come by," she said.
In cases where criminal charges can be brought, investigators have an even tougher time connecting phone communication to specific incidents in order to prove premeditation or intent to harm, said Mike Harris, an investigatorwith the Colorado District Attorney's Office First Judicial District, who specializes in internet crimes.
"You need to tie it specifically to the incident and then tie the phone to them," Harris said. "Then there is the secret language of emojis. ... It's very difficult and always changing."
"At a certain point with this technology, we have to take control as parents," he said. "Probably 90 percent of kids sleep with technology."
3 teens charged in death of Howard High School student
The DOJ said only one girl physically hit Amy; they will push for her to be tried as an adult
Amy Inita Joyner-Francis, the 16-year-old fatally assaulted in the girls bathroom at Howard High School of Technology, did not die of injuries sustained in the beating, but from a pre-existing heart condition exacerbated by the attack.
The state Attorney General's Office is pushing to have one of three girls involved tried as an adult. Trinity Carr, 16, seen in video punchingJoyner-Francis in the head and chest, is charged with criminally negligent homicide, punishable by up to eight years in prison.
The two other girls, Zion Snow and Chakeira Wright, will be charged with third-degree criminal conspiracy, punishable by up to one year in prison.
Investigators determined the April 21 fight was a planned confrontation in the girl's bathroom, but only one girl – Carr – actually hit Amy, according to a statement by the Attorney General's Office.
The fight was filmed, according to court documents, and shows Carr hitting Amy repeatedly in the head and torso area with "what appears to be a closed fist."
The video shows Carr leave and Amy try to stand up; then Amy appears disoriented and collapses back onto the floor, the court documents show. When paramedics found her, she was unresponsive and shortly after went into cardiac arrest.
Communication between the three girls showed that they planned the assault in the 20 hours prior to the attack, according to court documents. The three girls followed Amy into the bathroom and then began the assault, court papers say.
Because neither of the other two girls hit Amy nor had prior arrests, they will be tried as juveniles in Family Court.
The state Medical Examiner's Office played a large role in deciding on the charges, the Attorney General's Office said. The autopsy determined Amy died of "sudden cardiac death due to large atrial septal defect with a contributing factor of physical and emotional stress due to physical assault."
An autopsy showed she did not die of blunt force trauma.
"In layman’s terms, the Medical Examiner determined that Amy died from a cardiac incident that she was vulnerable to because of a pre-existing heart condition, but the cardiac incident would not have occurred if she had not been assaulted," the statement reads.
Dr. George Moutsatsos, a New Castle County based cardiologist and president of Delaware’s branch of the American College of Cardiology, said an atrial septal defect is a hole in the wall that separates the top left and right chambers of the heart. The condition causes freshly oxygenated blood to mix with deoxygenated blood.
“You are really sending out very low oxygenated blood to the body which under stress needs a lot of oxygen,” Moutsatsos said. “She was a vulnerable person. She fell into the wrong circumstances and unfortunately no one knew this.”
The charges are a reflection of the "maximum degree permissible by Delaware law," according to the Attorney General's Office. All charges were reviewed with Amy's mother and older brother.
They come more than two weeks after the attack shook the city and state and gained national attention. Wilmington police completed their investigation Thursdayand turned over evidence to the Attorney's General Office to determine the charges. Their spokesman, Carl Kanefsky, said late Thursday the state intended to deliver charges promptly.
Judith Ritter, a professor at the Delaware Law School, said Carr's charge is a “low-level homicide.”
“What it comes down to is what would a reasonable person have recognized about the risk of death here,” she said.
Ritter said they were probably not charged with an intentional killing because a reasonable person doesn’t believe a fistfight is likely to cause death.
“It sounds like the facts may not support proof that the assailant, or assailants, intended to kill her,” Ritter said. “They probably intended to hurt her, but she died.”
While there was an outcry for immediate and swift punishment for the three girls shortly after Amy’s death, some local activists called the charges just.
“That sounds fair and balanced,” said Mahkeib Booker, who launched the local chapter of Black Lives Matter last year. Because there were no apparent signs that the girls intended to kill Amy, Booker said he would have had a problem with them being charged with first-degree murder.
“I used to jump the gun and say sentence them,” Booker said. “But I have to really look at their background and check their upbringing, who created the type of environment that would make them want to bully and beat people.”
Booker said the girls need to be punished, but it has to be an appropriate punishment.
“'Throw the book' is a typical response for those who act out of emotions,” said Ty Johnson, former president of Wilmington's Interdenominational Ministers Action Council.
Johnson said he is sure the girls did not intend to kill Amy.
“It’s not only their fault, we have failed,” he said. “Any time girls get into a bathroom and they begin to act out the way they did we have failed as a society. And we can and must do better.”
New Castle County Vo-Tech School District will "follow through with necessary actions for the students involved in the incident based on the school district's Code of Conduct," said Superintendent Vicki Gehrt in a statement Monday.
"Our responsibility is to follow school board policy and procedures for all students involved," she said. The school did not offer further comment.
Wilmington Mayor Dennis P. Williams said in a statement Monday that the Howard High incident is a tragedy.
"From the beginning, the Wilmington Police Department and the Department of Justice worked hand-and-hand to determine the appropriate charges," he said. "This is just the first step toward providing Amy’s family and our community with closure. As this process moves forward, I ask that we keep the family and loved ones of everyone involved in our thoughts and prayers.”
Friends and family described Joyner-Francis as a compassionate, soft-spoken student who always worked to disrupt violence and reduce fighting. Many said the sophomore at Howard High was never the type of girl to be caught up in high school drama. She was enrolled in the dental assistant program.
In a bookmark-sized card handed out to those who attended Amy's memorial service May 1 at St. Paul Union American Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Joyner-Francis' mom described her as "extremely beautiful, so very thoughtful, awesomely intelligent, very, very talented and definitely one of a kind."
"You are simply marvelous my dear!!!" the memorial card read. "Hugs and smooches, you will be my heart always and forever, my beautiful sweetpea."
The family has not commented publicly on the attack and has not spoken directly with the media. Through various spokespeople representing them, the family has called for peace following Amy's death, as well as an end to social media lies that spread viciously in the days following the assault. All other services honoring Amy were private.
Gyheim Fitzgerald, 17, lives across the street from Amy. Her death still troubles him, he said Monday.
"I was just hoping they caught them and hoping they got charged with something good," Fitzgerald said.
Dan Cooke, who lives across the street from Howard on Clifford Brown Walk and has a teenage son, said parents need to monitor their kids on social media. He said he regularly views his 14-year-old's SnapChat and Instagram accounts.
Fake accounts on social media sites like Twitter and Instagram impersonated people believed to be involved in the attack. Police did not confirm any photos or videos directly, but said they were reviewing social media as part of the investigation.
“The social media is killing our kids,” Cooke said. “It starts at home, parents need to get more involved with what their children are doing.”
Carr “has to deal with this trauma the rest of her life," Cooke said, "but then again you have to be held responsible for what you do,” he said.
Wilmington Police Chief Bobby Cummings said in the week following the attack, investigators had more than 3,000 pages of data to review, as well as interviews and other forms on online communication. Experts said verifying social media accounts and determining the validity of posts, texts and other online communication can take weeks.
Ritter, the law professor, said while it may have taken police longer to go through the electronic communication, it also gives them insight into what the assailants may have been thinking.
"In some ways, it gives them some more evidence of what's in the mind of the defendants, which is usually hard to come by," she said.
In cases where criminal charges can be brought, investigators have an even tougher time connecting phone communication to specific incidents in order to prove premeditation or intent to harm, said Mike Harris, an investigatorwith the Colorado District Attorney's Office First Judicial District, who specializes in internet crimes.
"You need to tie it specifically to the incident and then tie the phone to them," Harris said. "Then there is the secret language of emojis. ... It's very difficult and always changing."
"At a certain point with this technology, we have to take control as parents," he said. "Probably 90 percent of kids sleep with technology."
Big Daddy
Fight or die fighting, no surrender.
Died from cardiac arrest due to a pre-existing heart condition, not from blunt force trauma caused by getting beaten or by her head hitting the sink, as initially believed.
Was only actually hit by one girl, not jumped by many girls.
Only one girl will be tried as an adult.
Interesting turn of events in this one
Was only actually hit by one girl, not jumped by many girls.
Only one girl will be tried as an adult.
Interesting turn of events in this one