Teen cheerleader's dad reveals how she died two hours after she felt tingling in her feet and numbness in her hands
Teenager Lilliana Schalck was just 10-minutes away from performing at a cheerleading contest in Ohio on February 23 when her father, Dan, said his fit and healthy daughter started complaining of feeling weak and a strange tingling sensation in her feet.
Almost two hours after she first complained of the discomfort, the cheerleading star from Kentucky was pronounced dead by staff at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. This left Dan feeling like he missed out on some key red flags that may have occurred before.
Dan told NBC News: "You just keep going over the sequence of events of the whole day and try to see if there was something that I missed... something more I could have done as her father." A post-mortem examination was performed on the body of the 13-year-old to find out her cause of death but the preliminary findings are yet to be released. The full report is said to take 8 to 10 weeks to be completed.