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Fresno police suspect an overdose in death of teenager who attended rave

By Dan Weikelwriter 
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Police suspect that a teenage girl died of a drug overdose after attending a rave at the Fresno Fairgrounds on Saturday night.

Authorities said Monday that Houa Hue, 15, a sophomore at Fresno’s Washington Union High School, was found dead early Sunday in the back seat of a car belonging to a stranger she had asked to take her home.

Fresno police are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death, but they assume the girl probably overdosed on a popular party drug.

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Houa attended the rave with three friends, according to KFSN-TV Channel 30, an ABC affiliate in Fresno. Her older brothers said they saw her at the event, drinking beer and acting strangely. Family members later reported that she never made it home.

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Dan Weikel

Dan Weikel covered local aviation, the California high-speed rail project, Metrolink, the MTA and regional transportation issues for the Los Angeles Times before leaving in 2017. He started with the newsroom in 1989 and previously covered courts and transportation in Orange County, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as well as substance abuse, environmental issues and law enforcement as a member of a project team. A native of San Diego, Weikel is a graduate of the UC Santa Barbara and the master’s program at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

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