Kaylee Gain’s ‘devastated’ grandma says family statement on her condition after vicious beating is forthcoming: report
An update on the condition of the Missouri teen viciously beaten in a twisted caught-on-camera brawl earlier this month is “imminent,” her agonized grandmother said Saturday.
Kaylee Gain, 16, was seriously injured during a fight with another girl a few blocks from Hazelwood East High School in Spanish Lake on March 8. Her family plans to provide an update on her condition shortly, grandmother Terry Nordstrom Thompson told the Daily Mail.
“That’s all I can say right now,” she added.
Thompson wrote that she was “devastated” on Facebook Friday night with a meme that read, “Have you ever just said ‘I’m fine’ when you weren’t because some people wouldn’t understand?”
She previously posted that Gain “may not recover” from the fight that led to brain bleeding and a skull fracture.
Shocking footage showed the teen being pinned down and having her head slammed on the concrete several times by an unidentified teen.
The other girl is believed to be 15 and was later taken into custody.
“Kaylee is fighting hard to stay alive and heal but this is only the beginning of a very uphill battle for Kaylee and her family,” read an online fundraiser for the teen organized by a family friend, which has raised over $322,000 as of Saturday.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey demanded that the 15-year-old facing assault charges in juvenile court be tried as an adult and hit with homicide charges if Gain dies.
“This evil and complete disregard for human life has no place in Missouri, or anywhere. I am praying for the victim,” Bailey said.
The Hazelwood School District also bears an “enormous amount of culpability” over Gain’s critical condition in part because it had pushed diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives over student safety, the state’s Republican AG claimed.
Bailey said the district booted uniform officers from its schools after the police agencies refused to have cops undergo its requisite DEI training.
“In other words, [the schools] are more in favor of racial divisiveness than in having school resource officers on their campuses,” Bailey insisted.
“So, what role did this radical divisive DEI indoctrination program play in preventing a police officer from being present and detecting this and/or from causing the racial divisiveness that may have motivated this fight?” he added.
