PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Brett Ryan hit the floor hard when he slumped over and died on the second floor of his mother’s Sumner home in February of last year.
“I was laying in bed, starting to go to sleep, and I heard a thud,” said Judy Russo. A short time later, emergency crews told her that her son had possibly died from using fentanyl.
Brett Ryan, 36, had a long-term drug and alcohol addiction that made his life a struggle…