LOS ANGELES — Melanie Ramos, a 15-year-old student at Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood, loved to travel and dreamed of one day joining the Army.
Her life was cut short Tuesday night by a suspected fentanyl overdose after she and another student bought what they believed were Percocet pills from a 15-year-old boy on campus.
Melanie was found unresponsive in a bathroom by her friend’s stepfather and a school employee about 9 p.m., when the campus was open for volleyball and soccer games, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene. Her friend also overdosed and was hospitalized.
