After the demise of a 16-year-old lady final month, questions swirled as to the trigger: Was it an accident, as Los Angeles County officers initially dominated, or the results of accidents suffered throughout a college combat that was caught on video?
However the ultimate post-mortem report for Shaylee Mejia, launched Friday in response to a public information request, decided there was no hyperlink between the combat — throughout which she appeared to slam her head right into a wall — and her demise from a head harm on March 15. The report as an alternative cited accidents she suffered after falling down some stairs, days after the combat happened.
“The medical information of her hospital admission starting on March 10, 2024, after her fall down the steps, doc acute traumatic findings,” the report stated. “There isn’t any proof to counsel that her traumatic head accidents leading to her hospitalization … have been because of the bodily alteration (sic) that occurred days prior.”
However Luis Carrillo, a civil rights lawyer representing Shaylee’s mom, took difficulty with the ultimate post-mortem report, particularly the dedication that the college combat was not a think about her demise. He stated the household has determined to conduct an impartial post-mortem, however these findings weren’t but full as of Friday night.
He stated the household has employed Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist who’s credited for locating the hyperlink between soccer and the degenerative mind illness power traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
The detailed post-mortem report from the Los Angeles County health worker famous that Shaylee had been in a combat on March 5, throughout which her “head struck a wall,” and she or he subsequently complained of complications and fainting.
However, in response to the report, Shaylee suffered the accidents that in the end proved deadly whereas at a celebration on March 9, when she fell down a flight of stairs.
Shaylee and a buddy have been on the second ground and “started working down the steps,” the report stated. Partway down, Shaylee “tripped and fell down the rest of the steps.”
Shaylee died of “sequelae of blunt head trauma,” or the results of a previous head harm, days after she was admitted to the hospital, in response to the report. The report detailed extreme head accidents, together with a number of hemorrhages and two fractures.
Paramedics later transported her to a hospital the place, regardless of remedy, she died days later.
Shaylee’s mom, Maria Juarez, had initially questioned how the demise might be dominated unintended and blamed her daughter’s faculty — Guide Arts Excessive College in South Los Angeles — for permitting what she referred to as continued bullying and repeated fights.
Juarez additionally beforehand stated her daughter had fainted on the occasion earlier than she was taken to the hospital.
“The coroner’s obligation is to find out the reason for demise and to not present ‘cowl’ to the [Los Angeles Unified School District] by exonerating the LAUSD from the brutal beating of Shaylee inside … Guide Arts Excessive College,” Carrillo stated in an announcement Friday. He additionally questioned what number of steps Shaylee fell down, a element not included within the ultimate report.
