{"id":1036203,"date":"2021-11-20T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036203"},"modified":"2021-11-20T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:58:45","slug":"penn-state-student-dies-after-falling-down-11th-floor-garbage-chute-mother-suspects-foul-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/penn-state-student-dies-after-falling-down-11th-floor-garbage-chute-mother-suspects-foul-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Student Dies After Falling Down 11th Floor Garbage Chute, Mother Suspects Foul Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpenn-state-student-dies-after-falling-down-11th-floor-garbage-chute-mother-suspects-foul-play%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/imgonline-com-ua-FrameBlurred-OrwRGhzDlrzih8rW-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Nineteen-year-old Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) student Justine Gross of New Jersey died after she fell 11 stories from a garbage chute in her apartment building, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/crime-courts\/2021\/11\/19\/Penn-State-University-student-death-Justine-Gross-Beaver-Terrace-colleges-Pennsylvania\/stories\/202111190120\">occurred<\/a> around 11:30 p.m. on November 10, and Justine was reported missing to the department around 5:15 p.m. on November 11,&nbsp;according to College State Police Department,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span> \u201cVideo evidence suggests she was alone in the 11th floor hallway and in the waste disposal room when she fell,\u201d the police department stated in a November 19 release, per the <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em>. \u201cPrior to her being found, the waste receptacle was emptied by a Borough of State College refuse truck.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.1176470588235\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update on student death. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4dwLaoU8wG\">https:\/\/t.co\/4dwLaoU8wG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8etbbQH0Yr\">pic.twitter.com\/8etbbQH0Yr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 State College Police (@StateCollegePD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateCollegePD\/status\/1461726909415534594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Gross\u2019s body was found by officers at the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority transfer station around 2:45 a.m. on November 12 and the county\u2019s coroner office was brought in to begin its investigation, the release states.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cAt this point the incident still appears to be accidental in nature,\u201d according to the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though law enforcement believes the incident was \u201caccidental,\u201d Gross\u2019s mother Francoise believes foul play had a role in her daughter\u2019s death.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s just not Justine. She would never do something like that, go down a chute,\u201d Gross <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/union\/2021\/11\/college-student-from-nj-died-after-fall-through-trash-chute-into-dumpster-mom-says.html\">told<\/a> the NJ Advance. \u201cThey want me to believe she walked into that chute. I believe someone was chasing her and she went into the chute, thinking it was a staircase.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Francoise told the NJ Advance that Justine\u2019s roommates say she met a young man in her apartment building and gave her a \u201csmoke.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Francoise spoke to the man in hopes of finding out what happened to her daughter.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span> \u201cI said to him, \u2018you\u2019re the last one to see my daughter, what happened?&#8217;\u201d she told the NJ Advance. \u201cHe said, kind of casually, like \u2018she came down and I gave her a smoke.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> \u201cHe said she had a really bad reaction, a panic, or whatever and he was trying to take her back to her apartment on the 10th floor,\u201d she added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The statement reportedly shocked Francoise as she did not believe her daughter used drugs, the outlet reports.<\/p>\n<p>Toxicology results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/news\/local\/education\/penn-state\/article255867126.html\">expected<\/a> to be finished in about six weeks, according to Centre News Daily.<\/p>\n<p>Francoise reportedly obtained a Snapchat from Justine to one of her college friends that was time-stamped at 11:22, moments before the incident occurred, per NJ Advance.<\/p>\n<p>The message simply says, \u201cSomething just happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francoise drove to Penn State on November 12 to help look for her missing daughter. The NJ Advance reports that once she arrived, she learned Justine\u2019s body was found. She then met with police, who showed her surveillance footage from the incident and later recounted what she witnessed to the NJ Advance:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\">According to the mother, the video shows Justine leaving her 10th floor apartment and walking to meet at the man\u2019s apartment on the seventh floor. She is later seen leaving the apartment with the man, walking unsteadily through the hallways.<\/p>\n<div class=\"InContent_Center_Background\" readability=\"34\">\n<div class=\"InContent_Center_Padding\" readability=\"38\">\n<p>Justine never made it back to her apartment, where her roommates were waiting for her. Instead the video sequence shows her running onto the 11th floor, seemingly alone, then rushing into the chute room, where she disappears and is not seen again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"InContent_Center_Background\" readability=\"40.5\">\n<div class=\"InContent_Center_Padding\" readability=\"41\">\n<p>Justine\u2019s flip-flops and cell phone were reportedly discovered in one of the building\u2019s stairwells, according to NJ Advance. Francoise explained police have twice interviewed the young man,&nbsp;\u201cbut he\u2019s now got a lawyer and he\u2019s not talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gross wants the university to provide more information to the public, but Penn State Spokeswoman Lisa Powers said that the State College police have authority over information regarding the incident as it took place off-campus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-observer\" readability=\"15\">\n<p><span> \u201cIt would be inappropriate for he [sic] University to interfere with that investigation nor to address information that has not been publicly released,\u201d Powers said in a prepared statement to NJ Advance.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Justine will be laid to rest on Saturday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI will bury her,\u201d Francoise told NJ Advance. \u201cBut I want to know what happened to her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen-year-old Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) student Justine Gross of New Jersey died after she fell 11 stories from a garbage chute in her apartment building, police say. 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