DOVER, Del. — Three teenage girls have been charged in a high school restroom assault in Delaware that left a 16-year-old girl dead, authorities said Monday.
The Delaware attorney general’s office announced the charges after meeting earlier in the day with the mother and older brother of the victim, Amy Joyner-Francis.
Joyner-Francis, a sophomore at Wilmington’s Howard High School of Technology, died April 21 after a fight broke out shortly before classes were to begin.
Authorities said a 16-year-old girl, the only person believed to have struck Joyner-Francis, is charged with criminally negligent homicide, which is punishable by up to eight years in prison. Prosecutors said they will seek permission from Family Court to have the girl tried as an adult in state Superior Court.
The other two suspects, also 16, are charged with third-degree criminal conspiracy, which is punishable by up to a year in prison, they added. They will be tried in Family Court.
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