PnB Rock Attends Vigil for Delaware Student Amy Inita Joyner-Francis Who Was Killed in School Last Week

Last Thursday (April 21), Amy Inita Joyner-Francis, a 16-year-old Wilmington, Del. student, was beaten to death by a group of girls in the school's bathroom. The brawl allegedly started when Joyner-Francis and a classmate argued over a boy and escalated when other girls jumped into the fight.

Reports are circulating that Joyner-Francis' head was smashed into a sink by one of her attackers, a blow that resulted in her death. Instead of trying to breakup the fight, onlookers recorded the incident on their cell phones and the video could result in serious jail time for the three girls involved.

"This was not a young lady who involved in street activity. This is an honor roll sutdent, manager of the wrestling team, whose mother and father were very engaged in her life, as well as her siblings," Councilwoman Sherry Dorsey Walker, who is serving as a spokesperson for the Joyner-Francis family, told reporters.

"There were different rumors going around. Saying she got stabbed, someone said she got shot, but we didn't hear gunshots. I know she got hurt real bad. I know bad things do happen here, but I didn't think nothing that serious would ever happen," Alexia Zurita, a 17-year-old classmate, told Delaware Online. "I don't want nobody to jump me over something so stupid. I'm not into that, the arguing and fighting over stupid stuff. People said they were fighting over a boy, but I don't know if that was true or not."

In the days following Joyner-Francis' death, friends of the teenage girl held a candlelight vigil for their fallen classmate outside of Howard High School of Technology and local artist PnB Rock showed up to pay his respects. Rock did not make a big spectacle of the gesture and didn't roll up with a big crew or use the tragedy for a photo op.

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