An ambulance is shown in this file photo. Twelve young people were rushed to the hospital overnight after they were given drinks spiked with a strong drug and then overdosed at a house party in Roslyn, Wash. police said.(Piccell/Getty Images)"When I got there people started falling like flies," he said. "I carried about four people downstairs. ... We were pretty much worried about them passing out and stuff because they were not responsive -- they weren't doing anything."
He and other students at the party said they are convinced someone spiked the drinks with the date-rape drug.
"It was really scary," Katelynn Allen, a Central Washington University freshman who was at the party but said she did not drink, told KOMO.
"Everything was going fine, the music was playing, people were having fun -- and then all of a sudden all the girls were puking everywhere," she said. "Girls were outside on their backs."
RelatedPolice became aware of the overdose problem late Friday night, after they were called at 11:10 p.m. about a possible overdose victim -- a young woman -- in a car at the Safeway grocery store in Cle Elum, Ferguson said.
The friends of the victim told police about the party and said that there were others there who also appeared to have suffered overdoses, he said.
When police got to the rented house in Roslyn, they found about 50 teens, many of them Central Washington University freshman, the chief said.
"As they entered the house they observed several individuals that appeared to be under the influence of some type of drug ... and were partially unconscious," Ferguson said.
Police questioned about 35 people at the scene of the party, but Ferguson said they have not yet determined who spiked the drinks.
Sunday, 10 October 2010
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