UC Santa Barbara junior Jude Quirinale, 21, of Monterey died last week after suffering an apparent fentanyl overdose in Isla Vista during Deltopia weekend, the annual unsanctioned street party that drew thousands to the college town this year.
According to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, an unconscious person was reported along the 800 block of Camino del Sur in Isla Vista around 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 8. The patient, Quirinale, was taken to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where the Sheriff’s Office says the third-year physics major died Wednesday, April 12, from a poly-substance overdose.
According to a GoFundMe page set up by his family , Quirinale’s fatal overdose was caused by a drug laced with fentanyl, which stopped his heart for 20 minutes before he could be resuscitated. The family took him off life support after it was determined there was no way of “bringing him back,” the post says. The GoFundMe has so far raised nearly $30,000, far exceeding the $5,000 goal to cover “afterlife services.”