A year later, a medical emergency occurred on October 3, 2002 when 16-year-old student Sarah Dotson complained of a headache, then collapsed at 8 AM during her first-period computer class. Despite the school nurse performing CPR on Dotson until paramedics arrived, she died shortly after arriving at Providence Everett Medical Center; her death was announced on the school's public address system at around 9 AM. Medical examiners discovered that Dotson had an enlarged heart and a coronary artery condition; they ruled out infection or contagious disease in her death.