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An 11-year-old cheerleader named Addilyn Smith was found dead in a hotel room along with her mother, Tawnia McGeehan, who shot both of them during a murder-suicide on February 15 at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Autopsy reports revealed that Addilyn’s face was covered by a pillow with a bullet hole through it. Toxicology tests showed that both had ingested several drugs including antipsychotics, antidepressants, and sedatives before their deaths.
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In Las Vegas, on February 15, a 34-year-old woman named Tawnia McGeehan killed her 11-year-old daughter, Addilyn Smith, in a murder-suicide at the Rio Hotel and Casino. When police responded to a welfare check call, they found both bodies lying side-by-side on one of the hotel room beds with gunshot wounds to their heads. Among other disturbing evidence, investigators discovered suicide notes written by McGeehan, including one taped to a chair near the entrance instructing anyone entering to call 911 immediately.
Toxicology reports showed that both Addilyn and her mother had consumed various drugs before the incident, such as quetiapine (an antipsychotic), gabapentin (for seizure disorders), lorazepam (an anxiety drug), and diphenhydra (an antihistamine). The case has shocked the community due to its brutal nature involving a child.
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The 11-year-old cheerleader who was shot to death by her mother in a harrowing murder-suicide was found with her face covered by a pillow that had a bullet hole through it, gruesome autopsy reports show.
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reports → shoot → it
Las Vegas cops discovered Addilyn Smith and her 34-year-old mother, Tawnia McGeehan, dead from gunshot wounds to the head while performing a welfare check on the Utah duo inside their hotel room at the Rio Hotel and Casino on Feb. 15.
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cops → discover → Feb.
The relatives’ lifeless bodies were found lying side-by-side on one of the beds inside the hotel room, where investigators also found a series of deranged, handwritten suicide notes left behind by the twisted mother – including one taped to a chair near the entrance that read: “Call 911 before walking in.
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that → find → 911
Two dead bodies and one is an 11-year-old,” according to Clark County autopsy reports obtained by The Post.
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one → accord → Post
Toxicology results included in the newly released reports also show that the mother-daughter duo had ingested a myriad of drugs before the gunfire erupted.
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gunfire → include → drugs
Substances including quetiapine, an antipsychotic medication; gabapentin, an anticonvulsant drug used to treat seizure disorders; the anxiety drug lorazepam and the antihistamine diphenhydramine were all present in Smith’s system when she died.
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she → include → system
McGeehan’s toxicology report listed the same drugs, as well as eszopiclone or zopiclone, a prescription sedative; the antidepressant drug known as citalopram or escitalopram; desmethyl loperamide, a chemical breakdown caused by the anti-diarrhea medication loperamide and cannabinoids.
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report → list → medication
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