16-Year-Old Las Vegas High School Student Dies After Collapsing During Flag Football Game

According to a family member, the student, later identified as 16-year-old Ashari Hughes by the Clark County Coroner’s office, was playing a game when she began having chest pains. When she passed out, she had gone to the sidelines to take a break, KLAS-TV reports.

In an email to parents, Desert Oasis High School principal Ian Salzman said that “staff immediately began providing medical aid and continued until paramedics arrived,” but Hughes did not make it. The Clark County coroner has not yet released any information about the circumstances surrounding her death.

Hughes was seeing a cardiologist for ongoing heart problems, a family member told KVVU-TV. They said the doctor had given her the all-clear to participate in sports, but they were thinking about pulling her out to reassess her condition.

The incident involving Hughes happened a short time after Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills experienced a cardiac arrest and passed out on the field after taking a hard tackle to the chest, which attracted the attention of the national media. Before being taken to the hospital in critical condition, Hamlin received CPR for 10 minutes and seemed to be given oxygen.