Source: West's Family / Family The death of 12-year-old Jada West has left a Georgia community grieving, as new details continue to emerge about the tragic sequence of events that took her life and the compassion that has followed in its wake. According to authorities, Jada, a sixth-grade student at Mason Creek Middle School, was involved in a physical altercation with another student on March 5 in her Villa Rica neighborhood, shortly after getting off a school bus.