Delaware County's district attorney will probe schoolyard fight that injured boy, 11

The Delaware County District Attorney's Office said Friday that it was investigating whether bullying led to a Jan. 10 schoolyard fight at Darby Township Elementary School in which an 11-year-old reportedly was seriously injured.

"There is no confirmation that this altercation was a result of bullying," spokeswoman Emily Harris said Friday.

The victim, Baily O'Neill, a sixth grader at the school, has since been hospitalized.

The Darby Township Police Department is leading the investigation, which the District Attorney's Office is assisting, Harris said.

Although there have been reports that O'Neill suffered a concussion, Harris said "that has not been confirmed" because "no medical records have been received at this point" by the District Attorney's Office.

Harris said there had been "conflicting reports" about what happened.

6ABC reported Friday that the boy was in a medically induced coma and that his family said the schoolyard altercation involved classmates who bullied him.

He was treated at A.I. DuPont Hospital in Wilmington and released, but returned a few days later with seizures and was placed in the coma, 6ABC reported.