March 12, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- A Birthday Celebration Turns Tragic
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After a night of heavy drinking to celebrate her 21st birthday, Amanda Jax died in a friend's bed in Mankato, Minn. The birthday celebration began the night of October 29, 2007, with a can of beer in the company of friends, according to the Mankato Free Press. By the time Jax was found dead the next morning, her blood alcohol level was 0.4594 percent, nearly six times the legal limit for driving in Minnesota.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that after Jax had a first beer or two at a friend's apartment Mankato, she spent the last night of her life drinking heavily with friends at nearby Sidelines Bar & Grill. Jax had taken pre-nursing classes at Minnesota State University, Mankato, between 2005 and the summer of 2007.
The Star Tribune reported that Jax spent two to three hours at the bar, consuming more beer, as well as at least three shots of liquor. The young woman who had planned to return to Minnesota State University to get a nursing degree, passed out at the bar and was carried to a car shortly before midnight by a bartender and another person. Friends said she was still alive at 2:30 in the morning of October 30.
Jax drank "copious amounts of alcohol in a short frame of time" the night of her birthday, police said. Friends found her unresponsive in the morning, calling for an ambulance shortly after seven.
On her driver's license issued in March of 2006, Jax had listed herself as 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 105 pounds.
"She was really the kind of person that could bring you up anytime you saw her," Megan Besser, who worked with Jax at a restaurant, told the Free Press.
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