12-year-old dies after being hit with metal bottle at Los Angeles school

A family is mourning the loss of their 12-year-old daughter after she was struck in the head with a metal water bottle at her Los Angeles school.

A memorial for 12-year-old Khimberly continues to grow outside of Reseda Charter High School. Her family said she died after medical complications stemming from what her family described as a bullying incident earlier this month.

“I feel very bad, destroyed,” her mother, Elma Chuquita, said in Spanish. “It’s not easy to lose a child. It’s not easy to see your child dying in a bed…

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