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Community aims to help family of Justice High School student after fatal overdose

The GoFundMe, which has raised more than $5,000 as of Friday night, aims to help the family lay Madeline to rest.

FAIRFAX, Va. — A Justice High School student died after overdosing while video chatting with a friend earlier this week, now a GoFundMe is aiming to help the student's family.

Fairfax County Police say around 6 p.m. on Monday, they responded to an apartment in the 2900 block of John Marshall Drive for a teenager who was unconscious and not breathing. Police say the teen was rushed to the hospital, but was pronounced dead shortly after.

A letter from the Justice High School Parent Teacher Student Association identified the student as 15-year-old Madeline Valeria Moran Centeno. 

"Our hearts are breaking," the letter from PTSA President Kim Lanoue reads. "Our hearts are breaking for our fellow Justice High School family, students, and staff - who have lost a child, a friend, and a pupil. Our hearts are breaking at the loss of the great potential of a young girl and the permanently impacted lives of her sisters, also students at Justice and Glasgow. Our hearts are breaking because we must again sit deep within some of our community’s darkest and most intractable struggles. Our hearts are breaking because we simultaneously live in disbelief and in fear that at any moment it could be us who is left wondering why and what if." 

The GoFundMe, which has raised more than $5,000 as of Friday night, aims to help the Moran Centeno family lay Madeline to rest. Click here to help donate. 

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