Devastated parents share harrowing video of daughter, 8, choking to death at school as they demand answers

The devastated parents of an 8-year-old girl who choked to death at her Texas elementary school have released harrowing footage of her desperate, failed attempts to get help.Adrian Thompson began choking during lunch at Velma Penny Elementary School in Lindale on April 15, with video released this week showing her waving her arms and gesturing for help before she sprinted to the nurse’s office, where she turned blue and collapsed, according to CBS 19.Thompson’s parents released the disturbing footage this week after investigators ruled it an accident with “no criminal offense” committed — which they feel ignores failings to help their daughter when she clearly showed she needed it.“If the camera footage that we were shown showed that once Adrian began choking and she got up for help and she went to the adult in charge and that they started all helping right away … I would still be devastated that Adrian passed away,” grieving mom Anna Thompson said.“But that’s not what the camera footage shows.So, this is where we feel like people need to know about this,” she said.The video shows Adrian standing up from her lunch table around 11:40 a.m.

and starting to heave and cough into a napkin.She holds her hands near her throat as she walks through the cafeteria, clearly struggling.“Adrian’s demeanor and actions appear to be those of someone coughing or choking,” Texas Rangers noted in their report, obtained by CBS 19.Adrian approaches a supervising woman and motions toward her mouth.

But the employee apparently misunderstood and thought she needed to vomit, walking her towards a trash can..The staffer asked Adrian if she wanted to go to the restroom, according to the police report, with Adrian rushing out after nodding that she did.Adrian is then seen running back into the cafeteria seconds later, waving her arms in distress at the same employee before rushing out again, before sprinting toward the nurse’s office.The nurse told police the girl...