Franklin High student who fell from railing died by suicide, coroner determines
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Set us as preferred The 17-year-old Franklin High School student who fell from a fourth-floor railing last week on campus died by suicide, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office.In an online database, the Los Angeles County medical examiner listed the manner of death for Xavier Nungaray-Martinez on Tuesday and noted he suffered from multiple blunt traumatic injuries to the head and torso.Officials have not released details about what preceded the fall.But videos that have circulated widely online show an altercation Wednesday in a classroom between two students.Videos reviewed by The Times show one boy striking another who is lying on the ground.
The teacher gets between the students, and the boy on the ground slowly gets up.The student doing the beating backs off, giving the other student a shove as he does so.The assailant still appears agitated, and the teacher, an older man, continues to stand between the two and shouts “Stop” and “Calm down” at the agitated student.
The boy who was hit turns away.Then, the attacker delivers one more punch that knocks the other boy to the floor.
He stumbles and then runs out the door.The attacking boy shouts at him: “Run ....! Run ...
!” using a racial slur.In another video, the boy who was hit is near the railing in a corridor outside the classroom.
At that point, the boy who appears to be the attacker approaches.The boy at the railing then vaults over it.
Los Angeles Police have not released details about their investigation or whether any arrests have been made.California Community members are expected to gather Thursday evening to mourn a Benjamin Franklin High School student who fell to his death Wednesday at the campus.
Police are investigating the fatal fall.Since Nungaray-Martinez’s death, there’s been an outpouring of grief at Benjam...