Teen’s death puts renewed spotlight on energy drink concerns for youth

A lawsuit filed last week alleges that Larissa Rodriguez died from excessive caffeine consumption. Other grieving parents say the death was preventable.

It wasn’t guns, or drugs, or a speeding car that stole Wendy Kline’s daughter from her in 2011. Kline says it was the energy drinks that her 14-year-old, Anais Fournier, drank in the hours before she went into cardiac arrest.

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