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March 18, 2024

Coroner: EDC attendee died from drugs and heat

2016 EDC: Night 3

Steve Marcus

People head into Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, June 19, 2016, for the third and final night of the Electric Daisy Carnival.

Ecstasy, cocaine and hot temperatures contributed to the death of a 20-year-old California woman who collapsed in a parking lot at the Electric Daisy Carnival last month, the Clark County Coroner's Office said today.

Kenani Kaimuloa of Temecula, Calif., died from consuming MDMA, also known as ecstasy, and cocaine, the coroner's office said. Heat stress contributed to her accidental death.

Kaimuloa was rushed to Universal Medical Center after collapsing while waiting for a shuttle bus about 6 a.m. June 20, authorities said. She died two days later.

Her father told the Associated Press last month that he knew his daughter took drugs during the three-day, dusk-to-dawn festival, but he believed dehydration and a heat stroke contributed to her death.

"She was at the EDC Las Vegas for the whole three days in the record-breaking hot weather. That alone could kill anyone," the AP reported her father saying.

Metro Police said 617 people were treated for mostly minor heat-related ailments this year, 17 of them were hospitalized. Felony arrests totaled 101.

In 2015 when temperatures were higher, there were more than 1,400 medical calls, and 27 people were hospitalized, police said. A 24-year-old man from San Francisco died of an accidental ecstasy overdose.

Three people who were in Las Vegas for the festival in 2014 died away from the festival grounds at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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