Teen Heart Recipient Steals Car, Dies

A 17-year-old who recently received a heart transplant died on Tuesday after a high-speed chase led him to crash a stolen car in Roswell, Georgia. Anthony Stokes had kicked in an elderly woman’s door, shot at her, and fled with her car. In 2013, Stokes was almost denied his transplant because his doctors felt he would be “non-compliant” with treatment, but Stokes’ parents believed they wouldn’t put him on the list because of his reputation for bad behavior. At the time, he was wearing a court-ordered monitoring device after many brushes with the law. Due to the national attention and pressure from family and civil rights groups, the hospital granted him his heart in 2013.