‘I never want to forget his smile’: South LA mom raises awareness on teen suicide after son’s death

The L.A. County Coroner’s Department has ruled that an ecstasy overdose caused the death of an 19-year-old CSULA Student, according to the L.A. Times. Aureo Peñaloza Jr, who was from South LA, was about to enter his second year of college when he died of an overdose on May 30th,2021.