Lawmakers are demanding accountability and investigations into how a 16-year-old girl in state care died while being housed at a hotel in East Baltimore.

A scathing audit released earlier this month highlighted concerns over lengthy hotel and hospital stays for foster children.

Dispatch calls

The emergency call came in just after 11 a.m. on Monday. "800 North Wolfe Street. It says Marriott room 1109, a possible D.O.A."

Baltimore police responded to the Marriott Residence Inn near the Johns Hopkins Hospital campus.

"It's going to be for a fatal overdose of a juvenile," first responders later said.

Authorities are not officially revealing the circumstances of how 16-year-old Kanaiyah Ward died , but said there were no signs of foul play.

She is one of several juveniles the sta

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