{"id":7359,"date":"2026-04-03T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/04\/12-year-old-girl-dies-after-being-hit-with-metal-bottle-while-defending-her-sister-from-bullies-minor-arrested\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:01:35","slug":"12-year-old-girl-dies-after-being-hit-with-metal-bottle-while-defending-her-sister-from-bullies-minor-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/04\/12-year-old-girl-dies-after-being-hit-with-metal-bottle-while-defending-her-sister-from-bullies-minor-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"12-Year-Old Girl Dies After Being Hit With Metal Bottle While Defending Her Sister From Bullies&#8230; Minor Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table width=\"80%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KEnT32Z00sfi.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\">\n                <\/td>\n<td width=\"80%\" valign=\"top\">A 12-year-old girl, Khimberly Zavaleta, passed away after allegedly being hit in the head with a metal bottle while defending her younger sister from bullies at Reseda High School. She was treated and released, but collapsed 10 days later from a brain hemorrhage and later died. The alleged bully, also 12, has been arrested.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old girl, Khimberly Zavaleta, passed away after allegedly being hit in the head with a metal bottle while defending&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}