Family of Route 101 Crash Victim: Heroin Killed Her

The family of a Fremont teen who was killed after her Mazda went careening through a guardrail and across the Route 101 median on Sunday is speaking out about her addiction to heroin, a drug she reportedly consumed sometime before the crash, according to press reports.

According to a story in the New Hampshire Union Leader, McCassie’s aunt, Audrey Musso, reported that doctors told the family that heroin and cocaine were in her system at the time of the accident. Musso also stated that nine different times in the last six months, McCassie had been revived with Narcan, a drug that is used to reverse the effects of heroin and other drugs.

According to press reports, in January, McCassie was reportedly found slumped over the wheel of her car in Rochester due to an overdose. After EMTs revived her, she was charged with driving under the influence and heroin possession.

New Hampshire State Police, however, are not commenting on the revelation due to the crash being an active investigation. Trooper Matheus Candido was called to the crash around 6 p.m. on June 7, 2015, after McCassie’s 2013 Mazda 3 drove across two lanes of traffic and then rolled over in the center median.

McCassie was enrolled in classes at NHTI, Concord’s Community College, according to her Facebook site, after graduating from Nute High School in 2014 where she was a National Honor Society student and on the student council. Sometime during her senior year, her family said, she was introduced to the drug and things quickly went downhill from there. According to the report, Nute High School will create a scholarship in her honor.

Read the full story at unionleader.com.

Caption: Jessica McCassie at her prom in 2013. Courtesy photo