CHARLOTTE — A college student from North Carolina who suffered a brain hemorrhage while on Spring Break in Mexico died Friday morning, according to her family.
Liza Burke, 21, was on a spring break vacation in Cabo San Lucas when she got a bad headache and went to her room to rest, according to our sister station in Atlanta, WSB-TV. Burke’s friends said they tried to wake her up, but she was unresponsive.
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She started to have a headache so she said I’m going to go back to the room to lay down and take some medicine,” family friend Jennifer Ritter told WSB. “Her friends went back later to check on her and they couldn’t wake her up.”
Burke, who’s originally from Asheville and had a job lined up in Charlotte after she graduated from the University of Georgia, was rushed to the hospital. Doctors discovered a brain bleed and performed an emergency surgery in late March.
Then, Burke’s family learned that she had been diagnosed with a brain tumor that was likely dormant for years.
According to a journal posted by Burke’s family and friends, she passed away at around 2:20 a.m.
“Liza took a final breath, sighed, and transitioned into the next realm,” said the journal on Posthope.org.
Burke’s family and friends say they are setting up a fund at the Foundation of the Carolinas for educational purposes.
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