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'Talk to your kids': Parents lose daughter to accidental overdose days before graduation

Hailey Deickman’s parents Allison and Jesse said their daughter was an honor roll student at Belle Chasse High School.

'Talk to your kids': Parents lose daughter to accidental overdose days before graduation

Hailey Deickman’s parents Allison and Jesse said their daughter was an honor roll student at Belle Chasse High School.

AND WE BEGIN WHIT THIS THE BELLE CHASSE AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE DAYS BEFORE HER HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION. RHE GRADUATION WAS SET AND LESS THAN ONE HOUR FROM NOW AND WDSU REPORTER AUBREY. KIIALLN IS LIVE IN BELLE. WITH THAT STORY AUYBR HEY SALA, SO HALEY DYKEMAN WAS AN HONOR STUDENT RIGHTER H AT BELLE CHASSE HIGH. IT’S THESE PRICELESS CHILDHOOD VIDEOS PEOPLE LIPSTICK ON AND HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR PICTURES OF 18 YEAR OLD HALEY DYKEMAN AT HER PARENTS ALLISON AND JESSERE A HOLDING ON TO THE NIGHT OF HER GRADUATION. IT’S GONNA BE A HARD NIGHT. TO KNOW THAT WE’RE HAVING TO ACCEPTT I AND SHE’S NOT THERE TO WALK ACROSS THE STATE. TO GET SOMETHING TT HASHE WORKED HARD. AND THAT SHE EARNED. I WISH SHE WAS STILL HERE WITH US TONIGHT. AND SHE WAS WALKING AND STAGE. AND HURTS MY HEART HALEY LOVED SCHOOL WORK AND SPENDING TIME WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY. SHE WAS ALREADY ENROLLED IN FALL CLASSES AT UNO. TBU ON FRIDAY MAY 14TH, OUR PARENTS SAY HALEY AND A FRIEND WHO THEY WERE NOT FAMILIAR WITH MADE A HORRIBLE DECISION. SHE HAD A FRIEND OVER AND THEY WENT TO BUY WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A $30 PERCOCET. THEY WERE GOING TO SHARE IT AND IT WASN’T A PERCOCETT A ALL. IT WAS A STREET DRUG LACED WITH FENTANYL. SO JUST HALF OF THAT IS WHAT? TOOK HALEY FROM US. LATER THAT NIGHT JESSE FOUND HIS DAUGHTER AND HER BROEDOM UNRESPONSIVE. HE SAYS THE FRIEND WAS CONVULSING. I’M GOING IN. AND FUN MY DAUGHTER. AND TRY TO GIVE HERPR C. THE NHTIG THAT I FOUND HER IN A ROOM, I JUST GOT OUT OF THE SHOWER AND I JUST PEEKED MY HEAD IN THE CHECK ON. AND THAT’S WHEN I FOUND HER BODY. HALEY DIED DAYS LATER ATHE T HOSPITAL THE FRIEND SURVIVED IF YOU COULD SPEAK TO ANY PARENT WHO MIGHT BE. WATCHING THIS STORY RIGHT NOW. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR MESSA TGEO THEM? JUST TALK TO YOUR KIDS AND LET THEM KNOW THAT. THERE’S NOTHING. SAFE OFF THE STREET IT’S NOT WORTH IT. I MEAN HALEY. SUFFERED A GREAT LOSS. SHE HAD HER WHOLE LIFE IN FRONT OF HER. JUST BE THE PARENT. DON’T BE THE FRIEND. AND THE TRAGIC INCIDTEN HAPPENED ON ALLISON AND JESSE’S 20TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. THE DAY WLIL NEVER BE THE SAME, BUT THEY WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO SEE HALEY SMILE AND FACE THE NIGHT OF HER HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION. I TELL HER I'M’SORRY. I’D TELL I’M SORRY. AND THEN I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE. ANDTO SPPED HER FROM TAKING THIS PILL. SO QTEUI THE EMOTIONAL STORY THE SUSPECTED DRUG DEALER IN THIS CASE HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND IS FACING A MURDER CHARGE AS WELL. REPORTGIN LIVE, I'
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'Talk to your kids': Parents lose daughter to accidental overdose days before graduation

Hailey Deickman’s parents Allison and Jesse said their daughter was an honor roll student at Belle Chasse High School.

A mother and father are devastated after their daughter died of an accidental overdose right before her high school graduation.Allison and Jesse Deickman said their daughter, Hailey, was an honor roll student at Belle Chasse High School in Louisiana. On Tuesday night, she would have walked across the stage accepting her diploma. Instead, her parents will.It is something they never imagined they would be doing."It's going to be a hard night to know we are having to accept it and she's not there to walk across the stage to get something that she worked hard for and that she earned,” Allison Deickman said."I wish she was still here with us tonight walking the stage it hurts my heart,” Jesse Deickman said.Hailey loved school, work and spending time with her friends and family.She was already enrolled in fall classes at The University of New Orleans.On May 14, her parents said Hailey and a friend they were not familiar with made a horrible decision."She had a friend over and they went to buy what they thought was a $30 Percocet they were going to share,” Allison Deickman said. “It wasn’t Percocet, it was a street drug laced with fentanyl so just half of that is what took Hailey from us."Later that night, Jesse Deickman said he found his daughter in her bedroom unresponsive. He said the friend was convulsing."Having to go in and find my daughter and try to give her CPR,” Jesse Deickman said. "The night I found her in her room I had just gotten out of the shower and I just peeked my head in to check on them and that's when I found her body.”Hailey died days later at the hospital, but the friend survived.“Talk to your kids. Let them know there is nothing safe off the street. It's not worth it. Hailey suffered a great loss. She had her whole life in front of her,” Allison Deickman said. "That's why we want to get her story out. So other parents don’t have to go through this pain and suffering.”The tragedy happened on the couple's 20th wedding anniversary. While the day will never be the same, they would give anything to see Hailey’s smile and face the night of her high school graduation.“I wish I could have been there and stopped her from taking this pill,” Jesse Deickman said. “We just want people to be aware this stuff is out there. People are dying. You could be the next person in my shoes and feel how I feel."Franklin Senfles, 22, of Gretna, Louisiana, was charged with one count of second-degree murder in connection to Hailey's overdose death, along with one count of attempted second-degree murder of a second victim.

A mother and father are devastated after their daughter died of an accidental overdose right before her high school graduation.

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Allison and Jesse Deickman said their daughter, Hailey, was an honor roll student at Belle Chasse High School in Louisiana. On Tuesday night, she would have walked across the stage accepting her diploma. Instead, her parents will.

It is something they never imagined they would be doing.

"It's going to be a hard night to know we are having to accept it and she's not there to walk across the stage to get something that she worked hard for and that she earned,” Allison Deickman said.

"I wish she was still here with us tonight walking the stage it hurts my heart,” Jesse Deickman said.

Hailey loved school, work and spending time with her friends and family.

She was already enrolled in fall classes at The University of New Orleans.

On May 14, her parents said Hailey and a friend they were not familiar with made a horrible decision.

"She had a friend over and they went to buy what they thought was a $30 Percocet they were going to share,” Allison Deickman said. “It wasn’t Percocet, it was a street drug laced with fentanyl so just half of that is what took Hailey from us."

Later that night, Jesse Deickman said he found his daughter in her bedroom unresponsive. He said the friend was convulsing.

"Having to go in and find my daughter and try to give her CPR,” Jesse Deickman said. "The night I found her in her room I had just gotten out of the shower and I just peeked my head in to check on them and that's when I found her body.”

Hailey died days later at the hospital, but the friend survived.

“Talk to your kids. Let them know there is nothing safe off the street. It's not worth it. Hailey suffered a great loss. She had her whole life in front of her,” Allison Deickman said. "That's why we want to get her story out. So other parents don’t have to go through this pain and suffering.”

The tragedy happened on the couple's 20th wedding anniversary.

While the day will never be the same, they would give anything to see Hailey’s smile and face the night of her high school graduation.

“I wish I could have been there and stopped her from taking this pill,” Jesse Deickman said. “We just want people to be aware this stuff is out there. People are dying. You could be the next person in my shoes and feel how I feel."

Franklin Senfles, 22, of Gretna, Louisiana, was charged with one count of second-degree murder in connection to Hailey's overdose death, along with one count of attempted second-degree murder of a second victim.