This is a photograph of the 15 year old girl who died at the Los Angeles rave from ODing on XTC. Even tho it was a 16 and up event, this 15 year old girl managed to sneak in.
Here is another CBS news piece about the Rodriguez family. Says that Sasha 'drank from a friend's water bottle laced with ecstasy.'
Seems like she wasn't really a drug user or anything. Friends and family confused:
Kimberly Keith, a family friend, said Sasha's loved ones are still trying to figure out what happened. Although they knew Sasha was going to her first rave, Keith said, drug use was "not her character."
When they got the call that Sasha had been taken to the hospital, they had no idea how serious her condition was.
"We were almost like joking, 'Oh she's going to be in trouble. I can't believe she went there!' " she said. Keith said they thought maybe the rave was "too packed, she was excited and passed out.... Never in a million years would we would have imagined" drugs.
A 16-year old friend who was with Sasha at the rave said Sasha was dancing, got hot and began quickly drinking cold water.
Doctors said "her sodium, electrolytes were so low that when she started replacing them so quickly [with cold water], ecstasy messes up your body's ability to process that, so it threw her body out of whack," said Keith.
Do yall feel sad that Grace Rodriguez's daughter is gone, all because of electro music + LA drug culture?
The girl, identified by family members as Sasha Rodriguez, was one of two rave attendees who were in critical condition at California Hospital Medical Center after the 14th annual Electric Daisy Carnival.
As Sasha's family decided whether to remove her from life support Tuesday, her mother, Grace Rodriguez, told the CBS Evening News: "I was supposed to be planning her Sweet Sixteen party. Now I have to plan her funeral."
Kinda scared to take ecstasy now.
She sank into a coma and suffered multiple organ failure, prompting her family to remove her from life support. Doctors said she had the hallucinogen Ecstasy, also called MDMA, in her system. Another rave attendee is in critical condition from a similar overdose.
Ecstasy can cause high blood pressure leading to stroke or seizures, which can then cause kidney failure.
The rave was restricted to those 16 and older. Sasha was not carrying identification, friends and family said. "Obviously, they didn't check IDs," said Eva Rodriguez, Sasha's godmother.
Who will be held responsible for the death of Sasha Rodriguez?
Is it the promoter's fault? Her mother's? Her friends?
Are yall pumped about Electric Daisy Carnival 2011, which will be held on foreign soil?
Are yall excited about the anti-rave movement in California?
Is the local news market in California 'pumped' about this new genre of 'rave content' 2 scare old ppl?
Does this make u want to go 2 a rave, or do u feel scared u will die there?
The Electric Daisy Carnival was a Los Angeles based rave that took place in an empty football stadium. It was rumored to have attracted 185K alternative raver tweens who just wanted to party hard 2 electro music. After seeing so many weirdos attend [link] and seeing riots + stampedes break out [link], it seems like some 15 year old girl overdosed at the event. Seems like a bad thing to have a teen OD at your music festival. Can't believe her family 'pulled the plug' on her. Wonder if they were disappointed in her, or thought she was making bad life decisions.
A 15-year-old girl who attended last weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum died on Tuesday from a suspected drug overdose, authorities said.
The girl, whose name was not released, was in respiratory arrest when she arrived at California Hospital Medical Center and never recovered, a hospital official told the Los Angeles Times.
What drug do yall think she was on?
Do people die at raves all the time [via OD]? Is it a bad idea to try to monetize a 'rave' as a music festival?
Is the Electric Daisy Festival 'gonna get its ass shut down'?
Feel like the local news is 'having a field day' with this story since it is probably relevant to Los Angeles families, since their kids are in the middle of an electro rebellious era:
Seems like the girl shouldn't even have been allowed in the doors. I guess when u throw a festival, u just want to make as much money as possible:
The website for the electronic music festival said the guests had to be at least 16, raising the question of how the girl got into the event.
Feel bad for the people who run LA Coliseum. It once hosted the Olympics, but isn't really a modern facility, so they have to find excuses to use it to try to make some money. Since it is a second class facility that holds over 100,000 people, they usually use it for Mexican soccer games or Cali-tween raves.
"On behalf of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, I express our dismay and deep sadness on the death of the young woman who attended the Electric Daisy Carnival," Barry A. Sanders, president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission said. "We send our sincere condolences to her family."
Sanders said he called a special meeting of the commission "to review all the circumstances and the criteria for insuring that event promoters in our facilities have proper procedures in place to protect the health and safety of all attendees."
"We will always be committed to the well-being of everyone who visits the Coliseum and Sports Arena."
Seems like they are just happy to make 'mad bank' even if it means some1 dying
"This is basically a government-encouraged drug fest. That's the wrong message," Dr. Brian Johnston, director of the emergency room at White Memorial Medical Center told the Times. "It's putting people at risk unnecessarily. It's putting people's health at risk."
Jon Lee, director of marketing for the Coliseum and Los Angeles Sports Arena, called the event "a success" and said a very small percentage of the attendees misbehaved.
"We don't like to see problems, but the vast majority had a good time without incident," Lee said.
The Coliseum, built on state land, is run by a joint city, county and state commission. The Coliseum does not receive any taxpayer subsidies and is financially independent. It is expected to earn well over six figures from the weekend rave, or as much profit as a couple of USC games, Pat Lynch, its general manager, told the Times.
Is Electric Daisy Carnival 'going down the shitter'?
Will it be back next year?
Will some local city council person build their re-election platform against 'shutting down rave death traps'?
Are ravers 'the new punks'/anarchists/etc?
Should raves be monetized / earn millions of dollars?
Is Los Angeles the rave capital of the world, and should they look to 'rebrand'?
Has electro spiraled out of control?
Do all teens who use drugs deserve 2 die?
Can we call any of the artists/DJs who performed at EDC 'murderers'? (Steve Aoki, Rivers Cuomo, Lil Jon, tons of other DJs)
Is the local news just produced to 'scare old people' and fuel their disdain of young people?
Is the 'party promoter' fucked, or is he just rolling around in money, rolling on ecstasy?
