A PENN State student fell 11 floors to her death after reportedly jumping into a trash chute before her body was found two days later at a landfill site.
Justine Gross, 19, died last Wednesday – minutes after she was said to have been offered drugs by an unnamed man.
She is also said to have sent her friend a last message on Snapchat before her death, which read: “Something just happened.”
Now her mom Francoise Gross has told NJ Advance she met with the boy who is said to have offered her daughter drugs.
She said: “I said to him, ‘you’re the last one to see my daughter, what happened?’
“He said, kind of casually, like ‘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.”
Justine’s body was found at Pennsylvania landfill last Friday – a day after she was reported missing by her concerned family.
Security footage shows her running along eleventh floor before heading into the chute room, her mom says.
At that point, she appears to be alone.
In the footage seen by Justine’s mom, she had earlier left her apartment on floor seven and headed to floor ten, where the unnamed man lives.
She appears unsteady on her feet leaving his apartment in the footage, Francoise says. before being seen running along floor 11 alone.
Francoise said the footage “is not” like her daughter.
She added: “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.”
A coroners report is yet to be released.
But police are said to have deemed the incident an accident.
Penn State spokeswoman Lisa Powers said “it would be inappropriate for he University to interfere with that investigation nor to address information that has not been publicly released.”
She added: “The university has offered its condolences to Justine’s family and friends, and has psychological counseling available to anyone who desires it.
“We are heartbroken for the family and friends of Justine Gross and offer our condolences to all who knew and loved her.”
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Original Article: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4102912/psu-student-justine-gross-11-floors-trash-chute-dead/
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Um…something’s not right with this story…Penn State is trying to shift blame away from them and onto the “unnamed man”. I’ve thought that once you started college and lived in one of their dorms, you have signed your “lease” for that dorm room you are NOT supposed to sell or use illegal drugs while on SCHOOL PROPERTY (the dorms, etc) during your time at school. Seems to me that Penn State has become lax on this. Bottom line is that the parents of this young woman should sue the school and make sure the “unnamed man” goes to prison for dealing drugs that resulted in the untimely death of this young woman.
So sad, I hope this family gets to the truth. I agree with them this doesn’t make any sense.
I think it is possible. Many kids would never recognize a trash chute because they have never seen one. Question is why was she there, was she trying to escape and hide from someone? By giving her drugs, the unnamed young man is complicit in her death and needs to be charged accordingly. Penn State needs to get to the bottom of this, including why someone can climb into a trash chute that falls down 11 floors?
Being woke and dope has a price
Always attracted to the “bad boys.”
It’s a female thang….