Kaylee Gain was suspended from school for brawling with another student day before fracturing skull in fight: sources
The Missouri teen who was left fighting for her life after having her head pounded into the sidewalk earlier this month was suspended from school the day prior for brawling with another student, The Post has learned.
Kaylee Gain, 16, suffered a skull fracture and a brain bleed that left her in a coma for two weeks after she squared off with another female teen about a mile away from Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis on March 8.
Her family revealed on Friday her condition is stable and she has been moved out of intensive care — though it is unclear whether she has regained consciousness.
The extent of the brain damage she has suffered also remains unknown.
The teen with whom Gain had an altercation the previous day was friends with the student who would later smash Gain’s head into the pavement, leaving her unconscious and her body twitching, sources said.
It is unclear if Gain was the aggressor or the target in that earlier fight.
A source said Gain and her combatant — who remains in custody at a juvenile facility facing felony assault raps — were members of two rival friend groups at the school.
The minor’s defense attorney, Greg Smith, said she had no violent history prior to her clash with Gain, and is an accomplished violin player and standout student.
“She is what you’d want out of a 15-year-old girl,” Smith told The Post of the girl accused of bashing Gain’s head.
The lawyer said his client has been mischaracterized in the wake of the viral footage, while Gain’s friends and family ripped her for the violent beating.
Prosecutors will push for the jailed teen’s case to be removed from juvenile court during a hearing next week so she can be tried as an adult.
Her parents, Smith said, are “scared to death” of the case against her.
“They want her to come home,” he said..
Two separate GoFundme accounts posted on behalf of Gain’s parents — who are no longer together — have raised close to $400,000.
The attorney representing Gain’s family, Bryan Kaemmerer, declined to comment.
Hazelwood High School did not return a request for comment.
