16-year-old boy dies after being found unresponsive at Lollapalooza; mother suspects seizure

Evan Kitzmiller was found unresponsive at Lollapalooza on Sunday. His mother believes it was a seizure as Chicago police launch an investigation into the death.
PUBLISHED AUG 6, 2018

A 16-year-old boy from Mundelein in Lake County, Illinois, died Sunday night (August 5) after he was found unresponsive at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago's Grant Park. At about 7:50 pm local time, the teen, identified as Evan Kitzmiller, was taken by a private ambulance provider to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead nearly an hour later, Chicago police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said. As the Chicago Tribune reports, the cause of the teen’s death is yet to be determined.

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