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A young man and recent graduate from Ridgeview High School died on Saturday at Anytime Fitness health club in Redmond, the Redmond School District confirmed Tuesday.

Redmond Police and Redmond Fire & Rescue declined to share details on the incident, but the  school district was told the death was due to a weightlifting accident, said Holly Brown, district spokesperson. 

Brown said the district was not authorized to share the former student’s name because he was a minor.

Ken Brown, a battalion chief with Redmond Fire & Rescue, was the shift commander on duty the day of the incident. He said the fire department never made it to the fitness center because the person had already died.

“We were canceled in all actuality before we got there because we were called for an incident and the police informed our dispatchers that it was a DOA (dead on arrival) and so we didn’t get there,” Brown said.

Redmond Police confirmed that officers responded to the fitness center, said Lt. Eric Beckwith, spokesperson for the Redmond Police Department.

“I can’t make any comments other than we responded to a medical call at Anytime Fitness,” Beckwith said.