(cnn)the story of anthony stokes was supposed to have a happy ending instead it ended tuesday, police say, with the teen heart transplant recipient carjacking someone, burglarizing a home, shooting at an elderly woman, leading police on a high speed chase and then dying after his car hit a pole in 2013, the teen's family told media that an atlanta hospital rejected him for heart transplant surgery due to what the hospital described in a letter as stokes' 'history of non compliance' at the time, mark bell was acting as a stokes family spokesman bell told cnn that a doctor told the family that anthony's low grades and time in juvenile detention factored into the hospital's decision to deny him a heart 'the doctor made the decision that he wasn't a good candidate because of that,' bell said then 'i guess he didn't think anthony was going to be a productive citizen' about a week after stokes' story made headlines, children's healthcare of atlanta gave him a heart on tuesday, stokes carjacked someone at a mall, kicked in the door of a home in roswell, georgia, and fired a shot at an elderly woman, who called 911, said roswell police spokeswoman lisa holland stokes drove away in a black suv, she said police spotted the car and ran its plates which showed it had been stolen police chased the vehicle stokes lost control of the car, hit a pedestrian and then a pole, holland said the vehicle was nearly halved, she said the pedestrian is stable and in good condition, according to cnn affiliate wsb stokes died at a hospital, holland said in 2013, stokes' family provided media with a letter they said was from children's healthcare of atlanta 'anthony is currently not a transplant candidate due to having a history of noncompliance, which is one of our center's contraindications to listing for heart transplant,' it read assessing compliance for potential transplant recipients is important because if a patient doesn't strictly take all required medicines as directed, he or she could die within weeks of leaving the hospital, said dr ryan davies, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the alfred i dupont hospital for children in wilmington, delaware, told cnn davies was not involved with this case when stokes' family was trying to get him a heart, the southern christian leadership conference advocated for the teen sclc's the rev samuel mosteller told cnn that he was disappointed 'we got this young man a second chance in life,' he said sclc referred the teenager to a mentor program in the atlanta area, but mosteller said that he wasn't sure if the teenager participated 'what happened between the time in 2013 to now, i don't really know,' he said 'how much anthony recognized the gravity of things and did what he needed to do to make himself a viable citizen, i don't know but we tried' cnn's lauren leslie, marylynn ryan, elizabeth landau and jacque wilson contributed to this report
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in 2013, anthony stokes' family said a hospital refused him a heart due to his 'history of noncompliance'. hospital eventually gave stokes a heart; on tuesday he carjacked someone, burglarized a home, police said . stokes shot at an elderly woman, hit a pedestrian with a stolen car and died in a police chase, authorities said 