--- title: Delaware Girl Dies After Fight in High School Bathroom description: A 16-year-old girl died on Thursday after succumbing to injuries she sustained during an altercation in a Delaware high school bathroom. canonical: https://time.com/4304788/delaware-high-school-fight-death/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-22T15:05:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:58:11.481Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Teen Girl Dies After Fight in High School Bathroom og:description: She was 16 og:url: https://time.com/4304788/delaware-high-school-fight-death/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e6e895b53cbc39c/6988904bf887dc75e7e95915/howard-high-school-student-death.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Student Death og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Teen Girl Dies After Fight in High School Bathroom twitter:description: She was 16 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e6e895b53cbc39c/6988904bf887dc75e7e95915/howard-high-school-student-death.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Teen Girl Dies After Fight in High School Bathroom by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 22, 2016 3:05 PM CUT  A student cries in front of Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, Del. on April 21, 2016. A student cries in front of Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, Del. on April 21, 2016.Suchat Pederson—The Wilmington News-Journal/AP by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 22, 2016 3:05 PM CUT A 16-year-old girl [died on Thursday ](http://www.nccvt.k12.de.us/news-announcements/message-ncc-vo-tech/ "undefined")after succumbing to injuries she sustained during an altercation in a Delaware high school bathroom. A fight broke out between a group of teenage girls at Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington at around 8:15 a.m. on Thursday, around the time the school day starts. One girl was seriously injured and had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital; it was there that the 16-year-old was pronounced dead, according to a [statement ](http://www.nccvt.k12.de.us/news-announcements/message-ncc-vo-tech/ "undefined")from the school. The school remained closed throughout the day on Thursday and a [hashtag featuring the name](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RIPAmy&src=tyah "undefined") of the student who died trended on Twitter. Images of both the girl and alleged scenes from the altercation were featured with some of the tweets. On [Facebook,](https://www.facebook.com/Amy-Inita-Joyner-Memorial-Page-837354173036079/?fref=nf "undefined") a memorial page was set up to honor the young girl. There, people are being asked to contribute to a GoFundMe to help her family pay for a funeral; it is not clear if the family is aware of the page or the GoFundMe account. “We are shaken but stand ready to provide support and care to the family, to Howard students and staff, and to all of those affected by this senseless act,” the school district said in a statement. “We ask that you do the same.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4304788/delaware-high-school-fight-death/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4304788/delaware-high-school-fight-death/"},"headline":"Teen Girl Dies After Fight in High School Bathroom","datePublished":"2016-04-22T15:05:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:58:11.481Z","description":"She was 16","url":"https://time.com/4304788/delaware-high-school-fight-death/","keywords":["Crime","Death","High School","cities","Students","tragedy","Delaware"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e6e895b53cbc39c/6988904bf887dc75e7e95915/howard-high-school-student-death.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2e6e895b53cbc39c/6988904bf887dc75e7e95915/howard-high-school-student-death.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Student Death","caption":"A student cries in front of Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, Del. on April 21, 2016.","creditText":"Suchat Pederson—The Wilmington News-Journal/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4304788/delaware-high-school-fight-death/","name":"Teen Girl Dies After Fight in High School Bathroom"}}]}] ```