Who is John Nabors? Alabama man arrested for frat brother Thomas Gleason's fentanyl OD death

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The close-knit bunch of fraternity brothers, all University of Alabama alums, had come together in Florida from all over the country to celebrate their unnamed friend's marriage. Gleason, 26, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, died as a result of an overdose. Three of his companions were taken to the intensive care unit, but they all survived. The poisonings during the bachelor party led the groom, who did not consume the contaminated cocaine, to postpone the wedding.

After ingesting a line of impure cocaine, Gleason immediately fell, according to his distraught father, and three of his friends followed suit shortly after. When Gleason and his wife learned that their child was in danger of dying in a hospital bed, they hurried to book a flight from Connecticut to Florida. “By the time we got to Charlotte (for a layover), the doctor was like, ‘Do you want us to keep him alive?’ That’s how it was,’’ he said. He was on a ventilator when they eventually arrived at their son's bedside. “We took him off (Monday) morning and he was gone within 10 minutes,’’ he told the NY Post.

Before his death, Gleason, who graduated from Alabama and then moved back to Connecticut, had established a real estate business. Gleason's devastated father claimed he wanted to make his son's death known in order to deter others from using drugs and the spreading fentanyl epidemic.

Fentanyl overdose cases among teenagers and young adults have taken a hit recently, MEAWW previously reported, Chris Didier, an Air Force veteran, talked openly about the horrifying moment he discovered his son Zachary unconscious from a fentanyl overdose in his bedroom, lying on his desk, and gasping for air. The vet and his wife, Laura, are currently educating people about the dangers of the drug in an effort to spare parents and kids the suffering they endured. Zachary, 17, was submitting college applications at the time. However, catastrophe struck on December 27, 2020, when he joined the ranks of the many fentanyl crisis victims after buying the drugs via Snapchat.