Levi Thamba Pongi, a 19-year-old international Northwest College exchange student from the Republic of Congo, ate a marijuana cookie and became incoherent and paranoid. He jumped off a 4th floor balcony of a hotel in a suburban area northwest of Denver. On March 11, 2014 during spring break, Thamba and his friends went to Denver…
On May 20, 2016, Peyton was riding her bicycle home with her stepfather, Cody Shetley. They were returning from an event at Fall River Elementary School, celebrating the end of second grade. In an intersection, she was struck and killed by a pickup truck. Longmont police suspected that 20-year-old man Kyle Couch, who struck and…
Johnny Stack was born on February 7, 2000, and died by suicide on November 20, 2019, at the age of 19. He was an incredibly intelligent, funny, charming, handsome young man, which you can see in his tribute video at https://johnnysambassadors.org/tribute. We are a regular suburban family that did regular family things. He had a happy…
Tanya Guevarra, 25, and her 5-week-old son, Adrian, were driving to pick up a prescription in their hometown of Dacono, Colorado. Steven Ryan hit them head-on, killing Tanya instantly, but Adrian suffered several days before dying. As is typical after a fatal collision, four hours elapsed before a blood sample was taken from Ryan. The…
My daughter is 24 years old and suffers from cannabis use disorder and cannabis-induced psychosis. We had her back for a short time, but the addictiveness of this drug has pulled her away from us once again. Roxanne was a beautiful baby, and as she got older, she was very bubbly and her imagination was…
My son, Brant, was a healthy, happy, bright, and normal teenager. He was a senior in high school, had excellent grades, and planned to attend college in the fall. He never had any discipline problems either at school or with the law. Brant had a gentle, quiet, and reflective side to his personality as well…
“I couldn’t breathe. I’m prone to asthma attacks, and every time my next door neighbors smoked marijuana in their apartment and on their patio, it irritated my lungs. I would cough so much. I’d throw up and couldn’t breathe.” Marijuana use. I almost died from it, and I wasn’t even the one using! I was…