A Penn State sophomore student died after falling several stories in a trash chute after having a “bad” reaction to smoking an unspecified drug.
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19-year-old Justine Gross’ body was found last week after a trash hauler emptied the garbage at a landfill in Pennsylvania. Before her death, the young woman’s roommates said Gross met up with a guy who gave her a “smoke” before she fell eleven stories down the chute at the Beaver Terrace Apartments, an apartment complex that is a block away from the campus.
According to the New York Post, the young man is also believed to be a student who lives on the seventh floor of the building and explained to her mother that her daughter ran to the top floor and jumped down the chute after she smoked with him.
“He said, kind of casually, ‘She came down and I gave her a smoke,’” “He said she had a really bad reaction, a panic or whatever, and he was trying to take her back to her apartment on the 10th floor,” her mother Francoise said. However, she doesn’t believe her daughter’s death was accidental as video footage showed the last moment of her life.
“That’s just not Justine,” her mom said. “She would never do something like that, go down a chute. They want me to believe she walked into that chute. I believe someone was chasing her, and she went into the chute, thinking it was a staircase.”