The mother of a 12-year-old girl in Reseda who died after a school fight is speaking out, saying her daughter was simply trying to protect her older sister from a group of bullies.
Khimberly Zavaleta’s family says she was hit in the head with a water bottle then later suffered a brain injury. She died at a hospital on Wednesday.
Elma Chuquipa, the girl’s mother, spoke with Eyewitness News over the weekend and said the day of the incident, Khimberly was standing up to a group of students who were allegedly bullying her older sister…