Updated: Teen found dead was Spaulding student

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Updated: Teen found dead was Spaulding student

Police say the teen's body was found in one of the rooms. (Courtesy photo)

ROCHESTER - The teenage girl found dead Saturday inside a Rochester motel was a student at Spaulding High School, The Lebanon Voice has learned.

She was declared dead by Frisbie EMS personnel a little after 5 a.m.

Police and Frisbie EMS had responded to the Riviera Motel on Gonic Road for an unresponsive person.

Her body was found in one of the motel rooms along with her mother and an adult male acquaintance of the mother.

An investigation is ongoing and an autopsy was scheduled for Saturday afternoon, but as of today no further information on a cause of death has been released.

The identity of the juvenile was being withheld pending notification of all next of kin.

Grief counselors are expected to be on hand Monday at Spaulding.