Jatwan Cuffie, Bobby McKeithen

Jatwan Craig Cuffie, 16, has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a ninth grader at Butler High School in North Carolina.

Cuffie, a ninth grader at the school, shot and killed Bobby McKeithen, 16, in a hallway after 7 a.m. on Monday.

McKeithen was pronounced dead at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

Clayton Wilcox, the Charlotte-Mecklenberg Schools superintendent, said a fight preceded the shooting.

“We have literally dozens if not hundreds of kids who were in the hallway when this fight took place who witnesses one of their own be shot and fall to the floor before they ran away in panic, Wilcox