Nex was a 16-year-old student from Oklahoma who died February 7 after a fight with other students in the bathroom at Owasso High School, which is located in a suburb northeast of Tulsa. Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old who identified as nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, got into an altercation with three girls in an Owasso High School bathroom who were picking on Benedict and some friends. Vigils for Benedict were held in Oklahoma and locations across the country, including Boston, Minneapolis, New York and Huntington Beach, California in the days following the student’s death. “This community has experienced grief like this so many times before.”AdvertisementNex Benedict described to police what happened when three girls at their high school attacked them. She instead asked police to speak to officials at Owasso High School about issues on campus among students.

Source: Huffington Post February 26, 2024 00:57 UTC