Tragic Story of Xavier Nungarary: A Beautiful Soul Silenced by Bullying

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The curly-haired young teen who leapt from the fourth floor of a Los Angeles high school after he was pummeled by a bully in a classroom lived his life as a “beautiful, caring, and loving boy,” according to his grief-stricken family.

Xavier Nungarary, 17, has been identified as the Franklin High School boy who bystanders caught on video withstanding punches from a suspected bully before darting out of a classroom and jumping over a fourth-floor railing onto the concrete below.