Soon after graduating high school in 2016, Lauren Seitz joined her Westerville, Ohio, youth music ministry group to sing at churches and nursing homes in Ohio, West Virginia and North Carolina. Colin Evans told WBNS-TV he shared a raft with Seitz that day at the U.S. National Whitewater Center, an outdoor recreational park in Charlotte that features a man-made white-water river ride. We helped each other back in.”But unlike her compatriots who fell in that day, Seitz would soon contract a deadly infection. Two days later, officials say, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as a “brain-eating amoeba.”Lauren Seitz, who died of brain-eating amoeba after visiting Whitewater Center, graduated H.S. Criminal defense lawyer James Wyatt told news outlet WSOC-TV that an issue will be whether Lauren Seitz signed a release document.

Source: Washington Post June 21, 2017 20:05 UTC