Kaylee Gain’s Parents Say Black Teen Arrested for Viral Fight Is Smart Enough to Know That She Would’ve Caused Severe Injuries [Video]

The parents of the Kaylee Gain, a Missouri high school that suffered severe injuries after a viral fight with another teen are pushing for 15-year-old girl to be tried as adult so that she can face harsher punishment for her role in the altercation.

It comes as Gain has been recovering since waking up from a weeks-long coma and being removed from the ICU following the viral fight on March 8 that left her hospitalized with severe injuries. Her family’s attorney, Bryan Kaemmerer, told KSDK she has “limited verbal communication.”

“Kaylee also recently began speech therapy, and has gone on a few short walks with the assistance of hospital staff as she is still unable to ambulate on her own,” the attorney added in a statement. “However, Kaylee does not have any recollection of the altercation that led to her hospitalization.”

The altercation near Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis, Missouri, was caught on cellphone video. …