Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to charge a 7-Eleven manager who allegedly beat her employee to death this summer.

Jessica McLaughlin, 24, and her manager had a history of disputes that ultimately devolved into a brawl on June 24, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Prosecutors said McLaughlin was conscious after another employee broke up the fight, but soon had difficulty breathing and passed out.

She was hospitalized soon after, but McLaughlin's family took her off life support, and she died on June 28.

"We collectively know that this is the right thing to do as hard as it is," her father Clancey McLaughlin said in June after taking the 24-year-old off life support. "I wouldn't wish this on anybody, I wouldn't even know how to explain how difficul

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