“My beautiful boy is gone,” Berman wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday, which featured an undated photo of her and her son smiling for the camera as Berman hugs him.
“A drug dealer contacted him on Snapchat and gave him (fentanyl) laced Xanax or Percocet (toxicology will tell) and he overdosed in his room,” the photo caption said. “They do this because it holds people even more and is good for business, but it causes an overdose and the kids don’t know what they are taking.”
Sammy died Sunday afternoon after an “ experiment failed, ” she said, adding that he had “ had the drugs delivered to the house. ” He was pronounced dead at the Santa Monica home despite the best efforts of firefighter paramedics who responded to the scene, authorities said.
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Berman said Sammy was a real college student preparing for college.
“Please watch your children and especially watch SNAPCHAT,” pleaded the distraught mother. “That’s how they get them.”
Her son’s death is under investigation by the Santa Monica Police Department and the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Santa Monica Police Department at (310) 458-8491 or Detective S. Pollnow at (310) 458-8455.
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