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11-year-old girl Joanna Ramos dies after fight with fifth grader over a boy 

She was rushed to the hospital after complaining of a headache

By Meena Hart Duerson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

A fight over a boy may have turned fatal for an 11-year-old California girl, who died after an altercation with a classmate on Friday.

Fifth grader Joanna Ramos was rushed to the hospital where she died of unknown causes hours after fighting with another girl in an alley next to their elementary school.

"They were fighting just for a boy," Ramos' friend Stephanie Soltero told KABC. "It's just stupid."

Seven other students from the elementary school flocked to the alley to watch the fight, which police said was planned in advance. The confrontation lasted roughly a minute and Ramos didn't have any visible injuries, according to police.

"We believe nobody was knocked to the ground," Deputy Chief Robert Luna said, according to the Los Angeles Times.

After the fight, Ramos went back to her after school program where she complained she wasn't feeling well and was taken home.

Her family brought her to the hospital just before 6 p.m., where police said she arrived unconscious and not breathing. She was rushed to surgery, but died just before 9 p.m.

"My sister-in-law rushed her to the ER, and two hours later she's gone. It's just sad. Very sad," her aunt Celina Cervantes told KTLA.

Luna told the Los Angeles Times the cause of her death remains "undetermined."

"There are still many questions, many questions that cannot be answered,” he said.

KABC reported Ramos had an ongoing issue with the other girl, and that they had also fought on Thursday and again on Friday over the same issue.

The other student in the fight has been identified and interviewed by police, according to KTLA. No arrests have been made.

"It is hard to understand how this could ever happen," Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster said at a press conference Saturday. "All of us are anxious to get answers from the investigation in hopes that they will help us make some sense of this heartbreak."

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