{"id":20720,"date":"2013-04-18T15:33:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20720"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:33:37","slug":"15-year-old-killed-in-punching-game-with-classmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20720","title":{"rendered":"15-Year-Old Killed In Punching Game With Classmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high school freshman died after participating in a punching game with a friend last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marquez Oliver<\/strong>, 15, had punched his friend in an apparent form of punching tag Wednesday. In response, the friend approached <strong>Oliver<\/strong> and punched him in his chest Thursday. <strong>Oliver<\/strong> immediately fell to the ground afterwards, according to witnesses. The incident happened during lunch hour at Normandy High School in Wellston, Mo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently the victim from what we are hearing had punched the other student yesterday and he said \u2018I will get you when I see you next time. I will get you!\u2019 And apparently he just saw him standing in the hallway and ran up and hit him and I guess he wasn\u2019t prepared for it,\u201d said Wellston Police <strong>Chief G. Thomas Walker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>School officials attempted to resuscitate <strong>Oliver<\/strong>, but he was unresponsive. He was rushed to a local hospital, where doctors declared him dead around 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities seem to be classifying the death as an accident. The school provided students with counseling Friday to help them deal with the loss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high school freshman died after participating in a punching game with a friend last week. Marquez Oliver, 15, had punched his friend in an apparent form of punching tag Wednesday. In response, the friend approached Oliver and punched him in his chest Thursday. Oliver immediately fell to the ground afterwards, according to witnesses. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}