ITMers looked on in horror earlier this week as some gruesome footage emerged from the epic Los Angeles dance festival, Electric Daisy Carnival, showing a legion of rowdy punters crashing through fences on mass and crushing fellow festival goers in the chaos. The festival saw more than 200 punters reported with serious injuries, with 100 of those being admitted to hospital for various reasons and in the days following the festival news has come to light that one of the hospitalised revelers has died in the aftermath of the festival.

According to Los Angeles Times, Sasha Rodriguez was admitted to hospital in a critical condition after EDC, with a drug overdose expected as the cause. Following her admission, Rodriguez’s health deteriorated to the point where her family members made the decision to remove her from life-support. What makes this story even more grizzly is the fact that Rodriguez was only 15 years of age, yet still managed to attend EDC despite the festival’s 16 year-old age restriction.

“Sasha had ecstasy in her system when she was brought to the hospital, doctors told the girl’s parents,” read an item from LAist. “‘A 16-year old friend who was with Sasha at the rave said Sasha was dancing, got hot and began quickly drinking cold water’, which actually shocked her body, since the ecstasy had compromised her body’s ability to replace her depleted sodium and electrolytes efficiently. The teen collapsed and hit her head on the ground, say friends, adding that despite trying to shield Sasha’s body, ‘the venue was so crowded, people stepped on them’.”

The nasty footage that we saw earlier in the week was enough to raise concern over the festival but in the light of the young raver’s death US media outlets have been whipped into a frenzy of hysteria and dismissive finger pointing with some of the more sensationalist media outlets calling for future bans on dance festivals – which the EDC venue has complied with, placing a temporary ban on rave events.

“This is basically a government-encouraged drug fest,” came a quote from Dr. Brian Johnston in the Los Angelese Times. “It’s putting people at risk unnecessarily. It’s putting people’s health at risk.”

Check out some clips detailing the festival tragedy below, with some sky-views of the plague of fence jumpers crashing the festival as well. It’s nasty.

Photo from Los Angeles Times, John W. Adkisson