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Seven-Year-Old Special Needs Student Dies on Cincinnati School Bus

A coroner found no signs of trauma as Cincinnati police probe the circumstances and the family demands answers about staffing and IEP transportation supports

Seven-year-old Ngone Talla was a student at Roselawn Condon School and her family told Local 12 that she is non-verbal and not ambulatory, requiring a wheelchair. (Talla family)
Seven-year-old Ngone Talla was a student at Roselawn Condon School and her family told Local 12 that she is non-verbal and not ambulatory, requiring a wheelchair. (Talla Family)
Seven-year-old Ngone Talla was a student at Roselawn Condon School and her family told Local 12 that she is non-verbal and not ambulatory, requiring a wheelchair. (Talla family)
Seven-year-old Ngone Talla was a student at Roselawn Condon School and her family told Local 12 that she is non-verbal and not ambulatory, requiring a wheelchair. (Talla Family)

Overview

  • The girl's family found 7-year-old Ngone Talla unresponsive in her wheelchair when the First Student bus arrived at their Northside home on Wednesday and she was later pronounced dead at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
  • The Hamilton County Coroner’s Office reported there were no obvious traumatic injuries related to her death.
  • Cincinnati Police have opened an active death investigation and First Student says it is fully cooperating while Cincinnati Public Schools has deployed its Crisis Response Unit to the school.
  • The family says the bus sat outside their home for about 10 to 15 minutes, the usual aide who rides with Ngone was not aboard that day, and they want to know when bus staff first noticed her distress and whether anyone on the bus called 911 before the father did.
  • Transportation is a federally recognized related service under IDEA, which means a student’s IEP can require monitoring or aide support during transit and substitutes must be given the training and information needed to provide those supports; the case could prompt reviews of contractor staffing and district oversight of special‑education transport.