Oklahoma Prosecutors Won’t File Charges Over Death of Nex Benedict

The Tulsa County district attorney said Thursday that no criminal charges would be brought in the case of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager who died by suicide after a fight in an Oklahoma high school bathroom last month.

The district attorney, Republican Stephen Kunzweiler, said he didn’t believe charges were warranted after reviewing the findings of an Owasso Police Department investigation and the Oklahoma medical examiner’s report.

Kunzweiler’s three-page letter acknowledged Benedict’s death as “a tragedy,” but said that “all of the evidence gathered” showed that the fight that preceded the 16-year-old’s death “was an instance of mutual combat.”

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