Should Fifth Grader be Charged with Murder?
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A school fight between elementary girls over a boy has led to the death of a 10-year-old.
Could and should the 11-year-old girl be prosecuted for murder?
Watch the video above for the full debate.
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A Los Angeles County Coroner's Office spokesperson says a 10-year-old Long Beach girl who fought with another girl on Friday died of blunt force trauma to the head. Joanna Ramos died a short time later.
Authorities now say this is a homicide investigation.
Hours after getting her nose bloodied in a fight with another girl at Willard Elementary School in Long Beach, Joanna told her mother she felt sick.
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PHOTOS: Joanna Ramos' Tragic Death
"My daughter started complaining, saying she doesn't feel good, let's go home, so we went to home and I changed her clothes, and she go to sleep, that's the only thing that I know," Joanna's mother, Cecilia Villanueva said. "We took her to the hospital but it was too late. She was in a coma."
Ramos died at a Long Beach hospital at 9 p.m. Friday, about six hours after the fight in an alley, police said Saturday.
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How Can a 10-Year-Old Die from a Fist-Fight?
The medical community says while rare, a fatal punch can and does happen.
Joanna Ramos, 10, died from blunt force trauma after emergency surgery for a blood clot on her brain, investigators and family members said. As far as police can tell, the blow did not come from a weapon, or a wall, or a windshield, but only the fists of another young girl, who is 11, whom she fought hours earlier.
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While the specific circumstances of Joanna's death are especially tragic and extremely unusual, medical experts said a blow in just the right spot can often prove fatal.
"This is rare, in that I've never seen it in a female, certainly not in a female adolescent," said Dr. Keith Black, a neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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