Family members say a teacher ignored a 12-year-old boy’s pleas for help before he died after being forced to run during sweltering heat at Canyon Lake Middle School.
Family members say a teacher ignored a 12-year-old’s pleas for help before he died after being forced to run during sweltering heat at his Riverside County middle school.
Yahshua Robinson suffered a medical emergency Tuesday around 11 a.m. during his physical education class at Canyon Lake Middle School in Lake Elsinore. The temperature at the time was in the low-to-mid 90 degrees. Amarna Plummer said her nephew hadn’t dressed for P.E. and was told to run for not doing so. She said that, according to other students, Yahshua started feeling ill.
"He was reaching out to the teacher, saying he needs some water. He said he couldn't breathe. He was telling the kids this,” Plummer said.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters. Plummer said her nephew's condition got worse, and he passed out on the field. Emergency responders arrived a short time later, but Yahshua was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, leaving his family devastated and furious.Plummer said Yahshua’s mother is a P.E. instructor at a different school in the district. According to Plummer, her sister-in-law warned school administrators about the dangerous heat, though it’s unclear which administrators.
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