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An Instagram model and her friend were left to die outside 2 LA hospitals after a party. The friend is now brain-dead, reports say.

Sophia Ankel   

An Instagram model and her friend were left to die outside 2 LA hospitals after a party. The friend is now brain-dead, reports say.
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  • One of two friends left unconscious outside LA hospitals in November is brain-dead, reports said.
  • Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola spent two weeks in a coma, her family said.

A 26-year-old architect who was one of two women mysteriously left outside different Los Angeles hospitals earlier this month is now brain-dead, her family said, numerous media outlets reported.

Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola spent two weeks in a coma after she was dropped off unconscious outside Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center on November 13.

Her family said over the weekend that she now had no chance of recovery, and that her organs would be donated to nine people, KABC-TV reported.

Cabrales-Arzola was dropped off two hours after her friend, the Instagram model Christy Giles, was left outside another hospital in the Culver City district of LA and pronounced dead at the scene. Giles was 24 years old.

Cabrales-Arzola's father, Luis Cabrales-Rivera, told The Sun that he was "grateful that with her last breath she will be able to give life to others and that she will live on in the heart, eyes, lungs of someone else."

His daughter was days away from her 27th birthday, he told The Sun.

"I asked God to return Hilda to me in 100% good health but if she was going to be left impaired it is better for her to leave and go by His side," Cabrales-Rivera told The Sun.

"It gives me a lot of peace to think that God lent her to us for almost 27 years," he added.

Cabrales-Arzola and Giles had attended a warehouse party in East LA together the night before they were dropped off at different hospitals.

Giles' mother and husband previously told multiple media outlets that the two women left the warehouse party with three unidentified men and went to an apartment in West Hollywood.

From there, they were meant to take an Uber to an after-party but never made it, Jan Cilliers, Giles' husband, told the Daily Mail.

Cilliers told the Mail that at the apartment, his wife sent a text message to Cabrales-Arzola, saying, "Let's go" alongside a shocked-face emoji.

Screenshots of the conversation that Cilliers provided to the Mail showed that Cabrales-Arzola replied: "Yes. I'll call an Uber. 10 minutes away."

The Uber arrived, but the women never got in, Giles' mother, Dusty Giles, told ABC7.

A toxicology report found that Cabrales-Arzola had heroin in her system, KABC-TV reported.

But Cilliers told KTLA earlier this month that he didn't believe either woman would have taken heroin voluntarily.

Giles' autopsy results and toxicology report have not been released, KABC-TV reported.

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