UCSB student dies from fentanyl exposure at Deltopia
April 15, 2023
Jude Quirinale
By JOSH FRIEDMAN
A UC Santa Barbara student died this week after reportedly being exposed to fentanyl at last weekend’s Deltopia event in Isla Vista.
Jude Quirinale, a third-year physics student from Monterey, suffered an overdose during the annual unsanctioned event that takes place along Del Playa Drive. Quirinale’s family says the UCSB student was drugged at a party.
“He was laced with fentanyl and died almost instantly but was resuscitated by emergency services and brought to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital,” Aidan Quirinale, Jude Quirinale’s brother, stated on a GoFundMe page launched earlier this week. “Our family is told there is no way of bringing him back due to the fact he was without a heartbeat for 20 minutes. So he’s been on life support for a couple days and we have to take him off the respirator as we feel it’s best for his suffering.”
Jude Quirinale died on Wednesday from a multiple substance overdose, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies located Quirinale after responding to a medical emergency involving an unconscious person in the 800 block of Camino Del Sur at 5:45 p.m. on April 8, sheriff’s officials say. Paramedics then transported Quirinale to the hospital, where he died four days later.
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