Last October, 14-year-old Shina Adriana Hendricks died following a fall at Spectra Secondary School — initially believed to be due to an attempt at parkour.
State Coroner Marvin Bay however assured yesterday that no such teenage folly took place, according to a Channel NewsAsia report. All allegations and rumours of Shina’s death occurring due to parkour, bullying or being dared were unfounded in his investigations.
The official sequence of events on Oct 20 last year is as follows:
- In lieu of a cancelled Physical Education class due to the haze, Shina and her classmates watched a movie in a fourth-storey classroom.
- Students were released about 9.10am for a short break.
- One classmate had been stretching his leg on a railing along the fourth-storey corridor. A group of students “jokingly challenged” him to stand on the parapet on the other side of the railing.
- The boy refused. The group continued to pressure him into climbing over the railing. He challenged them do it, since they’re so persistent.
- Shina — who was not part of the group — overheard the retort. She told him she could do it.
- Shina climbed over the railing and landed on the parapet — but lost her balance and fell over the edge.
- The girl was found lying face-up and unresponsive on the first floor, bleeding from the back of her head.
- Paramedics conveyed the unconscious girl to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in critical condition. Doctors found that she sustained traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, multiple skull fractures and bleeding in the brain.
- After her condition stabilised later that day, she was conveyed to Kandang Kerbau Hospital’s Childrens’ Intensive Care Unit.
- She was placed on life support, but her condition worsened.
- Shina was pronounced dead at 12.15am on Oct 21.
Rumours of her death being due to parkour may have been due to a photo that Shina posted of herself on Facebook — an image of her sitting on the ledge on top of a building.
