Central Coast teen Alex Ross-King fifth NSW person to die at dance festivals in last four months
Central Coast teenager Alex Ross-King had graduated from high school and was saving money to go travelling when she died at Sydney’s FOMO music festival on Saturday night. She is the fifth person to die at NSW dance raves in the last four months.
A 19-year-old Central Coast teenager had graduated from high school and was saving money to go travelling when she died at Sydney’s FOMO music festival on Saturday night.
Alex Ross-King, who is the fifth person to die at NSW dance raves in the last four months, was taken from the Parramatta Park event to Westmead Hospital about 6pm but doctors were unable to save her.
Authorities said it appeared the popular 19-year-old had taken substances before she died.
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Ms Voss-King’s grandmother Denise Doig told The Daily Telegraph the family was shattered by the death.
“She was the most loving child you could ever want. I’m the grandparent and she called me her best friend,” she said.
“She was like by everyone up here, she was working for the family business. An absolutely gorgeous child.”
Ms Ross-King’s death has sent shockwaves through the Central Coast community, with dozens of her friends taking to social media to remember her as a “beautiful soul gone way too early”.
One friend, who did not wish to be named, told The Daily Telegraph Ms Ross-King had graduated from Narara Valley High School and was saving money to go travelling.
“Alex was not about that lifestyle, she was a bright, kind-hearted, bubbly girl who everyone loved,” she said.
High school friend Lilyana Ashcroft said Ms Ross-King was widely known on the Central Coast.
“She’s very well known, she’s a very popular girl,” Ms Ashcroft said.
“She was just really down to earth and super genuine, not like those people who are fake.
“She had a drink and enjoyed herself, but she was never crazy with it, so this is a bad situation. It’s really sad, it’s messed up.”
One woman wrote on social media how she was struggling to comprehend the circumstances surrounding her friend’s death at the dance rave.
“For a day we all thought would never turn into something so tragic so quickly did and is something I’ll never forget,” she wrote.
“You were always full of life and a genuine person with such a big heart and quite easily one of the funniest people I’ve ever met, you were the life (of) the party always.”
Another Central Coast woman who knew Ms Ross-King took to social media to voice her anguish about the spate of suspected drug deaths and wrote: “Another beautiful soul gone way too early. There was so much of life to live lovely girl. I would do anything to stop this from keeping on happening”.
Speaking in Sydney on Sunday, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Jones said Ms Ross-King’s death was a “very, very tragic event”.
He said law enforcement did not want to be “the fun police” but “just want to make these festivals safe”.
Police said the drug seizures they made during FOMO were not linked to her death at this stage.
NSW Health warned MDMA and other party drugs carried risks.
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