Teen girl dies at her parents’ home after night out with friends
A teenage girl mysteriously died at her parents’ home hours after a night out at a bar with her friends.
Ava Hulett, 19, was with her group at Pelican Larry’s Raw Bar and Grill in Fort Myers, Florida, when she and another friend had medical emergencies, stated her family lawyer, Anthony Rickman.
The two teens were rushed to a hospital early on June 15.
Hulett returned to her family’s home in Estero, but her parents found her unresponsive just hours later, at 12.20pm. A sheriff’s deputy tried to administer life-saving measures until first responders arrived but she was pronounced dead 11 minutes later, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
‘Investigators learned she was a patron at Pelican’s Larry’s during the previous evening,’ stated the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
Rickman said: ‘She went from there to the hospital. They released her, and then she died a short time thereafter when she was released back home.’
Officials are investigating the death as a possible homicide.
But the sheriff’s office stated: ‘At this time, there is no indication that the staff at the business or its operations caused harm to their patrons.’
Hulett’s mother, Meagan Hulett, said her daughter did not kill herself and she does not believe she knowingly took a deadly substance.
‘She was conscious after the event and even said to me, “I don’t want to die,”’ she wrote on Facebook on Wednesday. ‘She was scared.’
The mother said she took her daughter home from the hospital and that the teen went to bed, only to be found not breathing when she checked on her again.
Police are investigation ‘other overdoses reported at the bar’, according to the post.
Hulett is the sister of Bradley Hulett, who was a 15-year-old Newsome High School student in Lithia when was he was accidentally shot dead by a friend while at the home of the son of a police officer in 2019.
‘No parent should ever outlive their children, and these two parents are outliving two of their children,’ Rickman said. ‘And it’s just horrific that they’re going through this again.’
The teen girl’s death comes only a few months after University of Missouri student Riley Strain went missing after being kicked out of a bar during a trip to Nashville. Strain’s body was pulled from a river after nearly two weeks of search efforts and his autopsy report released last week indicated that he died from intoxication and accidental drowning.
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