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Coppell resident dies after skiing accident
By Jim Kilpatrick, jkilpatrick@acnpapers.com
Taylor Storch, 13, of Coppell was declared brain dead on Monday after an accident while skiing Sunday on the intermediate Latigo trail at Beaver Creek Resort in Avon, Colo.
Storch lost control and fell over backward, slide off the run and collided with a tree. She was wearing a helmet.
After the accident Storch was taken to the Vail Valley Medical Center and later transferred to St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction. She was pronounced brain dead at the hospital early Monday afternoon.
“The community embraced the family in an amazing way,” said Terry Storch, a spokesperson for the family. “They couldn’t have been more respectful and receptive of the family coming, and we are just so thankful.”
Storch and his wife Tara have decided to have Taylor’s organs donated to others in need.
“Funeral arragnements have not been finalized as of yet,” Terry Storch said
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