re: Non-binary student, 16, dies after girls ‘beat her head across the floor’ in bathroom

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Family Member - "Why did they jump you?"

Nex - "They had been bullying me and my friends and I got tired of it so I poured some water on them and all 3 came after me."

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She appears lucid in that exchange. And it now appears police are saying the death wasn’t the result of “trauma” and again reiterate they are awaiting the toxicology report. It increasingly appears this may be a suicide.


Police: Oklahoma nonbinary student's death after in-school fight 'not a result of trauma,”

Investigators in Owasso, Oklahoma, are investigating the death of a nonbinary student one day after a physical altercation with other students.

On Wednesday, Owasso Police shared an update on the ongoing investigation and noted that a complete autopsy was performed on the student by the medical examiner. Police said the autopsy did not indicate that the student died as a result of trauma.

"Preliminary information from the medical examiner's office is that a complete autopsy was performed and indicated that the decedent did not die as a result of trauma," Owasso police said in a statement on Facebook.

Owasso police noted, "Further comments on the cause of death are currently pending until toxicology results and other ancillary testing results are received." The official autopsy report will be released at a later date, police added.

The student's mother, Sue Benedict, told the news outlet that Nex and another student had gotten in a fight with three older girls in the bathroom. It is not yet clear if their gender identities had a role in the altercation…