LONG BEACH, Calif. — A 10-year-old girl who died following an after-school fight with an 11-year-old female student suffered head trauma in the case the coroner's office said Monday was a homicide.
Joanna Ramos was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. Friday, about six hours after she and another girl had the fight in an alley near the school.
Ramos underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot on her brain late Friday after she began vomiting and complained of a headache, said her older sister, 17-year-old Vanessa Urbina.
Joanna was unconscious by the time she arrived at the emergency room, but hospital staff revived her three times before she went into surgery for the blood clot, Urbina told The Associated Press.