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http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/gun_lake_region/Blood_pressure_cuff_kills_eighth_grader
13 April 09
A 15-year-old Hastings Middle School student died Saturday in what Michigan State Police are investigating as an accidental death.
Two neighborhood friends found eighth-grader Donavin Prough's body at his Dowling home Friday afternoon with a blood-pressure cuff inflated around his neck. Investigators say he tightened it himself. He was home alone. The cuff belongs to Prough's mother, a nursing student.
He was taken to the hospital and put on life support, but proclaimed dead the next day.
It is unknown as to why he put the medical device around his neck.
Prough was just a curious, inquisitive kid, his father said.
Police questioned Prough's friends as to whether the death was related to the choking game - where people choke themselves to get a high feeling. The teens had never heard of Prough doing that, they told investigators.
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13 April 09
A 15-year-old Hastings Middle School student died Saturday in what Michigan State Police are investigating as an accidental death.
Two neighborhood friends found eighth-grader Donavin Prough's body at his Dowling home Friday afternoon with a blood-pressure cuff inflated around his neck. Investigators say he tightened it himself. He was home alone. The cuff belongs to Prough's mother, a nursing student.
He was taken to the hospital and put on life support, but proclaimed dead the next day.
It is unknown as to why he put the medical device around his neck.
Prough was just a curious, inquisitive kid, his father said.
Police questioned Prough's friends as to whether the death was related to the choking game - where people choke themselves to get a high feeling. The teens had never heard of Prough doing that, they told investigators.
more at link