New Jersey woman sues UMass over son’s fatal drug overdose
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — The mother of a University of Massachusetts Amherst student who died of a heroin overdose has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the school and another student charged with selling her son the drugs.
Francesca Sinacori’s suit seeks $5 million from the university for breach of contract, and $1 million from the other student for wrongful death.
Twenty-year-old Eric Sinacori, of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, was found dead in his apartment in October 2013.