The mother of Raniya Wright, the South Carolina girl who died after a classroom fight, says Raniya's friends told her that a bully had been baiting the 10-year-old into a fight and caused her to hit her head on a bookshelf before she died
The mother of Raniya Wright, the Walterboro, South Carolina, girl who died after a classroom fight, says Raniya's friends told her that a bully had been baiting the 10-year-old into a fight and caused her to hit her head on a bookshelf before she died.
Speaking to"Good Morning America" on Monday, Ashley Wright said she had complained to Forest Hills Elementary School in the past about the girl involved in the altercation. "I notified the school and spoke with her teacher at the time about the same person. She would just always come home saying this one girl picking on her," she told"GMA.
Fifth-grade girl dies after being injured in fight 01:36"They were in the class," the mother told the morning show."The girl came up behind her and was hitting her all in the head. How long, I don't know. She pushed her or rammed her head into the bookshelf."Read MoreRaniya had no prior health issues, Wright said. School officials said there were no weapons involved in the March 25 fight.
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