Teen Dies of Drug Overdose After Rave

Los Angeles - 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.

She died at 4:55 p.m. Hospital officials contacted coroner's officials about an hour later, according to Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner.

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.

"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."

Although the girl's body is still at the hospital, Dietz said an investigator will make a preliminary investigation and then the body will be turned over to the Department of Coroner for an autopsy and toxicology report.

"It will be a couple of days before the doctors get the case," Dietz said. "The big question is what kind of drugs are involved because drugs are pretty much free flowing at a rave party."