Mia Dieguez Death Dunwoody High Incident Report Details

DUNWOODY, Ga. — A police incident report details how first responders tried to save the life of a 15-year-old Dunwoody High student who died this week after a medical emergency at school, as well as some of the moments in the classroom leading up to the emergency.

The 15-year-old in the incident was identified this week as Mia Dieguez. A juvenile under the age of 18 has been arrested and is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and negligent conduct in connection with Dieguez’s death.

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According to the Dunwoody Police Department incident report, officers responded to a classroom where Dieguez was lying on the floor “unconscious and not breathing.”

School staff and nurses had already deployed an automated external defibrillator (AED), and the first-responding Dunwoody PD officer began CPR when he did not detect a pulse on Dieguez’s wrist.

That officer performed three rounds of chest compressions, the report said, before DeKalb County Fire Department personnel “arrived and provided life-saving measures.”

It adds that school staff administered two doses of Narcan because there was a possibility that medication played a role in the medical emergency.

The teacher in the classroom spoke to the Dunwoody police officer and said the 15-year-old girl came to class “unwell and sickly.” The teacher said it was “typical” for her to fall asleep in class, and when class began, “she put her head on her desk.”

“Shortly thereafter, Mia asked to get water from the nurse’s office,” the incident report states. “Upon her return, Mia sat at another desk and laid her head down again for the duration of class.”

The teacher assumed Dieguez was asleep until the lunch bell rang and she still didn’t move, the report said. They say other students tried to wake her up and noticed skin discoloration and difficulty breathing.

Dieguez was eventually taken to Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, the report said, where “hospital staff attempted life-saving measures” but were unsuccessful.

The report mentions several instances of speculation about whether drugs played a role; No official cause of death or toxicology findings have been announced. According to police, the teenager was in cardiac arrest when officers arrived.

An online fundraiser has also been set up to raise money for Dieguez’s memorial service.

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