LOS ANGELES - A 15-year-old student at Bernstein High School is dead and another teen was hospitalized after overdosing on pills they purchased at a park in Hollywood, officials said.Investigators believe the pills were laced with fentanyl.The parents of the teen girls became concerned after their daughters did not return home from school and reported them missing Tuesday evening.
The stepfather of one of the girls began driving around in search of his stepdaughter and kept circling back to her school. Around 8 p.m., he found her collapsed in the courtyard of the school campus located near the intersection of North Wilton Place and Fountain Avenue.In a fragile state, she managed to tell her stepfather she took half a pill she bought at Lexington Park. "She was very ill.
She had been the victim of an overdose. She was able to communicate with him and was able to let him know that her friend was in the women’s restroom," said Lt.
John Radke with the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Bureau Homicide Unit.SUGGESTED: ‘Rainbow fentanyl’: DEA warns of colorful synthetic drugs aimed at attracting young peopleThe stepfather then contacted a school employee.