{"id":10447,"date":"2011-10-06T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2011-10-06T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:52:13","slug":"shock-sorrow-after-teen-cheerleaders-death-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10447","title":{"rendered":"Shock, Sorrow After Teen Cheerleader&#8217;s Death In LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong> &#8212; When students returned for school Monday morning at Washington Prep, they were greeted by crisis counselors and missing one of their beloved classmates, a cheerleader who died after collapsing during a football game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angela Gettis<\/strong>, a 16-year-old sophomore at the school, was rallying the crowd Friday night in the fourth quarter of a tie game at Fremont High School when she suffered an apparent cardiac arrest, Los Angeles Unified School District spokesman<strong> Tom Waldman<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>The game stopped as coaches and trainers ran to help. Bystanders performed CPR while waiting for paramedics to arrive. <strong>Gettis<\/strong> died about three hours later at a hospital, becoming the second teenage girl from Los Angeles district schools to die over the weekend after a dramatic campus incident.<\/p>\n<p>School officials planned to discuss <strong>Gettis<\/strong> at a Monday morning news conference.<\/p>\n<p>School district Superintendent <strong>John Deasy<\/strong> said the girl was &#8220;a wonderful young lady. It is a catastrophic loss for the school and for the community. My heart goes out to her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gettis<\/strong> was a good student, said officials at the inner-city school in a rough area of Los Angeles. She planned to attend college and wanted to major in forensic science, school principal Todd Ullah told KABC-TV.<\/p>\n<p>At least two tribute pages memorializing the teen popped up on Facebook as news of her death spread.<\/p>\n<p>Grief counselors and a makeshift memorial also awaited students at South East High School in South Gate, where a 17-year-old student was stabbed during a lunch break in front of many student witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The student, <strong>Cindi Santana<\/strong>, died at a hospital late Friday night, <strong>Deasy<\/strong> said. Another student and an administrator who tried to help <strong>Santana<\/strong> had minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Santana&#8217;s former boyfriend, 18-year-old <strong>Abraham Lopez<\/strong>, was being held on suspicion of murder, the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said in a statement. Deputies reached by phone did not know whether he had retained an attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; When students returned for school Monday morning at Washington Prep, they were greeted by crisis counselors and missing one of their beloved classmates, a cheerleader who died after collapsing during a football game. Angela Gettis, a 16-year-old sophomore at the school, was rallying the crowd Friday night in the fourth quarter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}