DEVELOPING: Paramedics have been called to the Kennedy Compound in Cape Cod, Mass., Thursday; the Hyannis News reports the address is of Ethel Kennedy and that a young woman was in cardiac arrest and transported to a local hospital. pic.twitter.com/75v8Mxedaf
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Via Fox News:
Massachusetts authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was rushed to a hospital from a home on the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port Thursday.
Police told Boston 25 News that paramedics responded to a medical call on the property at around 2:30 p.m. The woman was taken to Cape Cod Hospital in an unknown condition. It is not clear whether she died at the hospital or at the property.
Boston 25 News, citing a law enforcement source, reported that the woman was 22 years old and died from a suspected drug overdose.
Update:
The woman has been identified as the granddaughter of Ethel Kennedy, Saoirse Roisin Kennedy-Hill. Lot of drug abuse in the family over the years.
Via Daily Mail:
Saoirse Roisin Kennedy-Hill has been identified as the young woman who died of a possible drug overdose at the Kennedy Compound on Cape Cod. She was 22 years old.
Paramedics responding to a call of a suspected overdose just after 2.30pm Thursday arrived at the scene and found the patient in cardiac arrest.
The woman was transported to Cape Cod Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to local media.
Barnstable police are now investigating.