Overview
- A 17-year-old Benjamin Franklin High School student, later identified as Xavier Nungaray-Martinez, went over a fourth-floor railing after a classroom altercation on Sept. 30 and later died.
- The Los Angeles County medical examiner listed the manner of death as suicide and recorded multiple blunt traumatic injuries to the head and torso.
- Widely circulated cellphone and surveillance videos show a physical fight in a classroom in which one student repeatedly struck Nungaray-Martinez before he walked to a fourth-floor corridor and went over the railing.
- LAPD detectives say preliminary evidence does not show he was being actively chased at the moment of the fall and investigators have not announced charges or identified a motive as the review continues.
- Family members have launched a petition alleging ongoing bullying and calling for more cameras, railing safeguards and police on campus while LAUSD cites student-privacy limits and says counselors are available as the community grieves.