Authorities said that five Minnesota teens were charged with murder on Wednesday after a 17-year-old girl overdosed on LSD.
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, prosecutors filed murder charges against the suppiliers of a synthetic LSD tablet which Tara Fitzgerald took just hours before her death on Jan. 11.
“We think there’s a moral obligation to keep kids free of drugs,” said Washington County Attorney Pete Orput. “We’re sending a message that suppliers will be held fully to account.”
KARE 11 reported that third-degree murder charges were issued against Alexander Lee Clausen and Cole Alexander Matenaer, both 19 and 17-year-old’s Sydney Claire Johnson, Alistair Curtis Berg and Brian Phillip Norlander.
Prosecutors believe that the lethal drug originated with Claussen, who later sold it to Matenaer, who then sold it to the underage teens.
A search of Claussen’s home turned up 305 doses of the drug.
LSD, which stands for lysergic acid diethylamide, is a potent hallucinogenic known clinically as 25i-NBOMe. Tests confirmed that Fitzgerald died of 25i-NBOMe toxicity.
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