we need an ambulance. there s a kid who s not breathing. it s east grand forest, i don t think he s breathing at all. he s dead. i know. can you guys start cpr with him? yeah. it is three days before eli s birthday. he would be 18. yeah. he wanted to go to grand forks to see his cousin and spend time with justin. melissa s son elijia was in grand forks to celebrate an upcoming birthday. he was with his foster brother justin. what were you planning that weekend. not a whole lot. just hang out basically. they would find themselves hanging out and sleeping over at the home of a cousin s boyfriend, neither had known 18-year-old adam budge but he seemed nice. budge said he had a special treat, a bag of chocolate that he had cooked with a white powder he says it extract from
psychedelic mushrooms. he gave eli and i the bag and said here you go. have fun. we just kind of started taking bites out of it and just eating it. it tasted just like chocolate. no bad chemical taste. just chocolate and we ended up splitting the bag. it was nothing like i ve ever had before. i was kind of scared but i was like reassuring myself and my subconscious that it s just mushrooms. it s just mushrooms. it wasn t just psychedelic mushrooms. it was something much worse. for justin, it was already too late to stop what was about to happen. do you remember what was happening? what you were seeing? the trees looked like kol co flowers dancing around. swaying really funny and the sidewalks were swooping up and down like a roller coaster and the grass was shooting up to the
necessithey got the phone ca eli wasn t breathing, blue in the face. you had to call your mom? i called her when i went outside waiting for 911 and told her and toll hd her that he died. were you able to fully tell her why? no. i was ashamed of myself for failing him for or less. i felt like i had failed him. justin was a teen when eli s family had taken him in. raised h ed him as their own. after everything they had done for me and eli was laying there dead and i was alive. eli suffered multiple organ failures and went into cardiac arrest cutting the oxygen supply to his brain. when we got to the hospital, doctors said eli was brain dead.