In Spain, a 14-year-old boy died after ingesting an energy drink containing 2 grams of tusi, the drug also known as “pink cocaine.”
Ryan's case moves the country, as they suspect that his death was caused by two other young people who wanted to play a prank on him.
According to El País, Ryan left his home in Moncloa, Madrid, on Friday night to meet up with friends.
He had with him nothing more than 30 euros.
He never returned home:
he decomposed in a subway station and died minutes later
.
The police called his mother from Ryan's phone to immediately go to the subway station.
They told him that her son had fallen and that he was dizzy.
However, a few minutes later - and before the woman arrived - Ryan went into cardiopulmonary arrest and died.
It all happened around 11 at night at the
Espaldares
station in Getafe.
Police and two of Ryan's friends were at the scene.
Shortly afterward, the Madrid Emergency Medical Service (Summa 112) arrived to try to save the boy, although there was no success.
Curiously, prior to his death, the boy's family saw a video online in which two other teenagers laugh that they had put two grams of tusi in a third party's can of drink.
That made everyone involved think that Ryan had died of intoxication.
Tusi, also known as pink cocaine.
Illustrative photo: AFIP
The young man was honored in a park near the station, where his friends built an altar with white and red candles.
Police investigate why Ryan died
And the boy's family was right:
Ryan died of intoxication
.
Over the weekend, toxicology autopsy results came back positive.
Upon finding out, his family connected the dots and confirmed his suspicions regarding the video (which is no longer available).
The teenagers who accompanied the boy at the subway station explained that minutes before Ryan and they had been with two other acquaintances who ran away when the first one fainted.
They were the ones who told the police that Ryan had met with those two boys after agreeing on Instagram and that during their meeting the teenager had drunk an energy drink.
In fact, there were only 27 euros in Ryan's pocket, which suggests that the boy could have spent those three euros on the energizer.
The National Police confirmed that they are investigating whether the child drank the energy drink knowing that it contained tusi. For this reason,
the case is not being investigated as a homicide
.