Crime & Safety
Plainfield Teen Killed While Running in Traffic Was Out of His Mind on Fake LSD: Lawsuit
The dead teen's father sued an alleged drug dealer to "stop other families from going through what they're going through," his lawyer said.
A Plainfield teen killed after he ran into Interstate 55 traffic was out of his mind on fake LSD, according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court.
The lawyer representing the father of dead teen Anthony Hernandez said the youth thought he was buying LSD when he instead purchased 25I-NBOMe, a synthetic drug commonly called N-Bomb.
Hernandez, 16, a “good student, a wrestler,” had never been in trouble with the law, said attorney G. Grant Dixon III, and before July 12, had not tried to buy or ingest LSD.
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But after Hernandez dropped what was actually N-Bomb, he began “behaving very erratically,” Dixon said.
“His friends will testify that he became uncontrollable” and ran out of a buddy’s house in the early morning of July 13, Dixon said.
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“He gets onto I-55 because the fence is broken down at that point, and he is struck by a car and is killed,” Dixon said. A white cross now marks the spot north of Jefferson Street where Hernandez managed to get onto the interstate.
Hernandez’s father, Edgar Hernandez, sued the teen who allegedly sold the drug to his son. That young man, 19-year-old Tristan Durov of Shorewood, faces charges of aggravated driving under the influence and reckless homicide in Grundy County in connection with two unrelated deaths.
“A few weeks (after Hernandez died), Tristan was in a horrific car accident and killed (passengers),” Dixon said. “He’s in jail.”
Dixon called the civil case against Durov “unique” and said Anthony Hernandez’s family is “taking a stand against these drug dealers.”
“Drugs are taking over our schools and our neighborhoods, and the only way to do anything is to take a stand against these kinds of people,” he said.
“They want to do anything they can do to stop other families from going through what they are going through,” Dixon said.
Dixon said he was “honored” to represent Hernandez’s family and said the teen “just made a bad decision and ultimately it cost him his life.”
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