MILWAUKEE – Officials said a Minooka teen died early Sunday morning after using drugs while at a club in Milwaukee.
Kara E. Starr, 18, was pronounced dead just before 5 a.m. in the emergency room at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee, according to documents from the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
Starr had been in Milwaukee to attend a concert, the documents state, and was at a club called The Rave when she began seizing. A Milwaukee Fire Department ambulance transported Starr to Sinai between 2 and 3 a.m.
When admitted to the hospital, she was unresponsive and received several forms of treatment – including one round of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan – before she was pronounced dead, according to the documents.
Before first responders arrived, Starr told an emergency medical technician at the club she had taken the drug Molly, the documents state. Upon admission to the hospital, she tested positive for amphetamines and cannabinoids.
An autopsy was scheduled for Monday morning and the death was preliminarily ruled accidental by the Medical Examiner's Office.
According to the documents, Starr drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes and marijuana, but family were unaware of any other drug use.
Minooka Community High School District 111 spokesman Dave DiLorenzo confirmed Starr was a senior at the school.
Family declined an interview request.
Visitation will be held from 2 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Andrew J. McGann & Sons Funeral Home, 10727 S. Pulaski Road in Chicago.
The funeral will be 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Friday at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, 9525 S. Lawndale Ave. in Evergreen Park. It will be followed by a service at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 6001 W. 111th St. in Alsip.