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Yordy Reyna se retiró de la comisaría sin hablar con la prensa. pic.twitter.com/eTTT9rU7Gt — Revista Lima Gris (@Limagris) November 21, 2017

Former Vancouver resident Dan Cino lives in Lima.

“Everyone here has heard about her death,” he told Postmedia News. “It’s really sad.”

According to a police report obtained by America TV, one of Chocano’s friends said the teen and her friends had met up with Reyna and a group of his friends at a nightclub. Around 5 a.m. Sunday, Reyna, 24, drove several of them to an apartment belonging to a friend.

There is some suggestion that Chocano didn’t want to go to this particular apartment — she said she had a volleyball game later on Sunday and wanted to rest — but went inside with a man named Joaquin, apparently her boyfriend.

After about 10 minutes, Joaquin came back outside and said Chocano had collapsed. According to the America TV report, Chocano’s friends found her lying on the floor in a pool of blood, face up, between the bed and a night table.

According to Lima newspaper El Comercio, her friends tried to revive her but didn’t succeed and then took her to hospital. She was confirmed dead by hospital staff.

The president of the Peruvian volleyball federation said Chocano is believed to have died from a cerebral and pulmonary edema.

Chocano had been a star on Peru’s junior national women’s volleyball team.

“First and foremost, our thoughts are with the family and friends of Alessandra Chocano,” a Whitecaps spokesman said in a statement.

Reyna confirmed to the MLS club that he was indeed “one of several people at the same party as Alessandra Chocano on Sunday. He has proactively reached out to authorities to provide them with any information which may be helpful to their investigation.”

“Our sympathies go out to the Chocano family.”

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