A 22-year-old Ohio woman has died two days after she was tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed by police during a George Floyd rally …
A 22-year-old Ohio woman has died two days after she was tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed by police during a George Floyd rally in Columbus, according to a report.
Sarah Grossman attended the demonstration on May 28, when she was “exposed to tear gas and pepper spray” that was “discharged by police as part of crowd control,” her father told the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office on May 31, according to the Dayton Daily News.
The day before, the Centerville woman was found unresponsive by her family about 10 p.m. and was rushed to Sycamore Hospital, where she arrived in cardiac arrest, according to preliminary autopsy results.
The Dayton Daily News reviewed the coroner’s report using a provision of Ohio law that allows the media to review preliminary autopsy records.
The young woman’s cause of death remains under investigation.
An ER nurse reported her death as a suspected overdose, but no toxicology screen has been completed to show drugs in her system and her family denies any history of drug abuse, according to records cited by the outlet.
Grossman’s body showed no signs of lethal trauma and the only medical condition mentioned in the preliminary records is an allergy to peanuts, the paper reported.
