Las Vegas Athletic Club Drowning Shown In Graphic Video
It’s the video that LVAC didn’t want you to see. However, 8 News Now requested the footage from the Southern Nevada Health District and the gym lost in court. Now the video Las Vegas Athletic Club drowning death of 58-year-old Leticia Trippett has been released to the public. The video is incredibly depressing and damning.
Video Of The Las Vegas Athletic Club Drowning Shows A Long Struggle
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The video uncovered by KLAS shows the incident in question. It happened in February at the LVAC location in North Decatur. It shows Leticia Triplett in the pool, holding the side wall of the pool. That eventually resulted in her attempting to get out of the pool by the stairs.
Her struggle at the stairs seems not to have been a vocal one, as several members walked past her including on said stairs.
That struggle to survive eventually turned deadly. She kicked away from the stairs and eventually succumbed to the water. From there the Las Vegas Athletic Club drowning video shows Triplett lying motionless in the pool for a full 10 minutes. Members walked past her, assuming she was just floating atop the water for relaxation one can assume.
After 10 minutes, a member coming out of an adjoining pool noticed her situation was dire and dove in to assist. Other members jumped in to help. It was only then that a staff member from LVAC joined to attempt to revive her.
Las Vegas Athletic Club Drowning The Cause Of Significant Rule Changes
The drowning of Leticia Triplett and other near-drowning incidents caused the Southern Nevada Health District to change its policy regarding the omission of lifeguards at gyms.
While LVAC maintains people are monitoring security cameras to ensure their members are out of harm’s way, the Health District says the video of staff members monitoring the video in the Las Vegas Athletic Club drowning case was deleted. A lifeless floating body in a pool should certainly raise worry in anyone monitoring closely.
The rule change from the Southern Nevada Health District will once again require gyms to have manned pools with actual, in-person lifeguards. This has led some gyms to close their pools altogether.
Las Vegas Athletic Club maintains that Triplett’s death was a cardiac issue and not the direct result of drowning. However, noticing she was struggling and or motionless a lot sooner may have been enough to save her life, her family argues.
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