Aria Doherty, a popular student at Alfred B. Nobel Middle School in the upscale Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, was pronounced dead in her home on Monday evening after she was found unresponsive by her older sister.
“Unfortunately, it was due to inhaling this vapour from this can, which was found close to her body,” Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Monica Carazo said. “I don’t know the brand name, but it’s the kind you use to clean your keyboard, your computers.”
Young people sometimes inhale such vapours in an effort to become intoxicated, a form of abuse known as “huffing.”
Doherty’s parents told local media their daughter, who likely died from cardiac arrest, had no history of drug or inhalant use. They said they wanted to use their daughter’s death as a warning to other parents.
“This was not that she had done it so many times that the chemicals had finally caused her brain damage or she’d gotten too much into her system. This is about her having a heart attack from just the very moment that she did the inhaling.
Source: TorontoSun
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