District attorney won't bring charges in Nex Benedict's death, calls fight 'mutual combat'

The Tulsa County, Okla., district attorney has decided not to bring charges in the death of Nex Benedict, a transgender high school student who died February 8, a day after a fight with three other students in a school restroom. “From all of the evidence gathered, this fight was an instance of mutual combat,” DA Stephen Kunzweiler wrote in a three-page letter announcing his decision Thursday, The New York Times reports. “I do not have a reasonable belief that the State of Oklahoma could sustain its burden of proof beyond...