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Autopsy to be done on Duke Medical teen
Medical examiners will determine what ultimately killed a 17-year-old teenager who survived a botched heart-lung transplant but died two days after receiving a second set of organs.
An autopsy was planned Monday on the body of Jesica Santillan, the state medical examiner's office said. A lawyer for the family said an autopsy was appropriate.
Family and friends were planning memorial services for the teenager Tuesday, one public and another private, said Mack Mahoney, a family friend and Jesica's chief benefactor. He said he believed the family, who was in seclusion, would return her body to their home country of Mexico for burial.
Jesica, whose own heart had a deformity that kept her lungs from getting oxygen into her blood, was pulled from life support Saturday.
Death toll rises to 97 in nightclub fire
On Sunday, for the first time, the parents, siblings and children of the dozens of victims who couldn't escape The Station nightclub were allowed to walk up to the rubble of the nightclub to pray and say goodbye.
Their visit came as the death toll from the tragedy was raised to 97, after the governor announced that yet another body had been pulled from amid the debris.
The band playing at the club Thursday night was just getting into its first song when sparks from the pyrotechnics ignited foam tiles in the ceiling and quickly spread flames over the crowd of more than 300. Fire officials said the entire building was engulfed in three minutes.
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