CHICAGO - De'Kayla Dansberry student at Johnson College Prep in Englewood sliced and diced to death while fighting with another colored sow over who could take the best "SELFIE"

De’Kayla Dansberry imagined herself sprinting down the deep-blue track at Eastern Illinois University later this week.

Her small track team — seven girls total — from Johnson College Prep in Englewood qualified for state last week to run three relay races.

“The track is painted this pretty blue, and it feels like going to the Olympics,” Johnson Prep track coach Latrise Muhammad said Sunday. “And I just kept telling these girls, ‘This is a big deal,’ and especially De’Kayla, because she’s a freshman.’

“It turned out she was the missing piece we needed. We qualified to go downstate for all the relays because we had her,” Muhammad added.

But on Saturday, the 15-year-old was fatally stabbed in the chest during a fight with another girl outside the Parkway Gardens housing complex in the 6500 block of South King Drive, according to Chicago Police.

She was stabbed about 7:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead a short time later at Stroger Hospital.

“It was some type of dispute that turned physical, and it turned into a large group watching them fight. And the other girl pulled out a knife and stabbed her,” police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Sunday. Several people have been questioned, he said, but no one was in custody Sunday night.

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