ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – It was a plot to target private school kids seeking drugs to help with testing. It ended in the death of a 16-year-old student and an admitted dealer being sentenced to prison.
Gage Huesgen, a student at Saint Louis Priory School in Missouri, was 16 when he was offered a pill to help with his studies in 2022. What was sold as Xanax was really laced with fentanyl. He later died.
“We can talk about how wonderful he is,” Greg Huesgen said of his son, “ … but you need to see the face that goes with the heart that’s behind him. And I wanted the defendant to see what he did and who he affected.”
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The Huesgen family was in the courtroom on Tuesday when the man who sold Gage the pill, 23-year-old Zaki Salman, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. That’s more time than prosecutors requested for the admitted drug dealer…