Medical examiner rules SCSU student died from accidental overdose

NEW HAVEN — Officials say a Southern Connecticut State University student found unresponsive in his campus apartment died of a drug overdose from a substance similar to the opioid fentanyl. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. James Gill said Ray Lucas, a junior and sports management major from New Jersey,  died from the effects of para-Fluorobutyryl Fentanyl, which is a fentanyl analog. Gill tells the New Haven Register the drug is like fentanyl, but its chemical attachments make it struc