MOORHEAD – On Monday night, 23-year-old Jordan Larry was giving a back-to-school haircut to a kid in his south Moorhead neighborhood. On Tuesday night, his family members were going through his things, reminiscing on his life before the addiction and mourning his death. Larry was found lying on his bathroom floor in south Moorhead at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. Family members believe he aspirated while administering heroin, meaning he breathed vomit into his lungs. They called 911, performed CPR, intubated him for an hour-but he was gone. "So this kid that I brought into the world almost 24 years ago, I had to say goodbye," his mother, Lisa Jackson, said through tears as she sorted his clothes less than 12 hours later. "And tell him that I loved him and rest in peace. And I hope that he finds that peace." Jackson found out only in June that her son had been using heroin for about three years. She estimates he started experimenting with drugs at age 16 or 17, moving from marijuana to the Concerta that was prescribed for his ADHD, to ecstasy, cocaine, oxycodone and heroin. Over the past six months, he was in and out of jail four times, she said, mostly for felony charges in Cass County related to delivering oxycodone and heroin. Standing in the garage of their south Moorhead home Tuesday night, she pulled a blue tie-off, the strip of rubber used to restrict blood flow when administering heroin, out of one of the boxes. "This makes me sick," she said.
To his family and friends, Larry was so much more than a heroin addict. He was a skateboarder, an adventurer, a talented barber and could build a bench out of wood scraps at the age of 8. "Jordan was the one that did everything that my daughter needed done, and he did it with a smile," his grandmother Cheri Simanovski said Tuesday. "He would lift things, he would do anything for my daughter. But this addiction ... " She paused, fighting back tears. The drugs changed Larry, his family members said. He stopped smiling, stopping cracking jokes. And he took up new habits. "Lying, stealing," Jackson said. "Manipulating?" her son Sonny Jackson, 17, suggested. "Yep. All of that," she said. "Having him live here was horrible because I love him, but it broke my heart because it's like being a hostage to someone's addiction. Where's your wallet, where's your purse. Is there anything missing? I had a lock on my bedroom door for years." [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984611","attributes":{"alt":"School photos of Jordan Larry, who was found dead of a drug overdose in a Moorhead home. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"667","title":"School photos of Jordan Larry, who was found dead of a drug overdose in a Moorhead home. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]] Although he left jail with a drug patch that was supposed to monitor his intake, Larry skirted the patch-perhaps by washing it or taking it off, Jackson said. Regardless, he was still using drugs and frequenting pawn shops to pay for them. He lived with her, except when she threw him out for the heroin, but she took him back when he became homeless. "My son was still in there somewhere, but drugs take over entire people, and Jordan hated himself because of it," she said. Despite that, his family is certain the death was not a suicide, a possibility that Moorhead police said they would investigate. "Jordan wanted to live, this was not his intention," Simanovski said. "Jordan loved life." [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984615","attributes":{"alt":"Cheri Simanovski, left, is consoled by friend Anita Johnson. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"667","title":"Cheri Simanovski, left, is consoled by friend Anita Johnson. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]] A friend was actually at the door to pick him up Tuesday morning, when Jackson went down to check on him and found the bathroom door locked. She called his phone, pounded on the door and took the hinges off with her husband George Jackson's help. Police responded to the medical call at 7:45 a.m. and seized heroin from the home, Lt. Tory Jacobson said later that day. The official cause of death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner's office in Ramsey County. Jackson doesn't know what her message is for other parents. She realizes jail isn't a rehabilitation facility, but she doesn't think such centers, including the one where her son spent five days, are effective. She knows one thing, though. "I don't ever want anyone else to have to find their 24 or 23-year-old child on the floor, dead from a heroin overdose."MOORHEAD – On Monday night, 23-year-old Jordan Larry was giving a back-to-school haircut to a kid in his south Moorhead neighborhood. On Tuesday night, his family members were going through his things, reminiscing on his life before the addiction and mourning his death. Larry was found lying on his bathroom floor in south Moorhead at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. Family members believe he aspirated while administering heroin, meaning he breathed vomit into his lungs. They called 911, performed CPR, intubated him for an hour-but he was gone. "So this kid that I brought into the world almost 24 years ago, I had to say goodbye," his mother, Lisa Jackson, said through tears as she sorted his clothes less than 12 hours later. "And tell him that I loved him and rest in peace. And I hope that he finds that peace." Jackson found out only in June that her son had been using heroin for about three years. She estimates he started experimenting with drugs at age 16 or 17, moving from marijuana to the Concerta that was prescribed for his ADHD, to ecstasy, cocaine, oxycodone and heroin. Over the past six months, he was in and out of jail four times, she said, mostly for felony charges in Cass County related to delivering oxycodone and heroin. Standing in the garage of their south Moorhead home Tuesday night, she pulled a blue tie-off, the strip of rubber used to restrict blood flow when administering heroin, out of one of the boxes. "This makes me sick," she said. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984608","attributes":{"alt":"A sympathy card that Lisa Jackson received. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"693","title":"A sympathy card that Lisa Jackson received. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]] To his family and friends, Larry was so much more than a heroin addict. He was a skateboarder, an adventurer, a talented barber and could build a bench out of wood scraps at the age of 8. "Jordan was the one that did everything that my daughter needed done, and he did it with a smile," his grandmother Cheri Simanovski said Tuesday. "He would lift things, he would do anything for my daughter. But this addiction ... " She paused, fighting back tears. The drugs changed Larry, his family members said. He stopped smiling, stopping cracking jokes. And he took up new habits. "Lying, stealing," Jackson said. "Manipulating?" her son Sonny Jackson, 17, suggested. "Yep. All of that," she said. "Having him live here was horrible because I love him, but it broke my heart because it's like being a hostage to someone's addiction. Where's your wallet, where's your purse. Is there anything missing? I had a lock on my bedroom door for years."
Although he left jail with a drug patch that was supposed to monitor his intake, Larry skirted the patch-perhaps by washing it or taking it off, Jackson said. Regardless, he was still using drugs and frequenting pawn shops to pay for them. He lived with her, except when she threw him out for the heroin, but she took him back when he became homeless. "My son was still in there somewhere, but drugs take over entire people, and Jordan hated himself because of it," she said. Despite that, his family is certain the death was not a suicide, a possibility that Moorhead police said they would investigate. "Jordan wanted to live, this was not his intention," Simanovski said. "Jordan loved life." [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984615","attributes":{"alt":"Cheri Simanovski, left, is consoled by friend Anita Johnson. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"667","title":"Cheri Simanovski, left, is consoled by friend Anita Johnson. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]] A friend was actually at the door to pick him up Tuesday morning, when Jackson went down to check on him and found the bathroom door locked. She called his phone, pounded on the door and took the hinges off with her husband George Jackson's help. Police responded to the medical call at 7:45 a.m. and seized heroin from the home, Lt. Tory Jacobson said later that day. The official cause of death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner's office in Ramsey County. Jackson doesn't know what her message is for other parents. She realizes jail isn't a rehabilitation facility, but she doesn't think such centers, including the one where her son spent five days, are effective. She knows one thing, though. "I don't ever want anyone else to have to find their 24 or 23-year-old child on the floor, dead from a heroin overdose."MOORHEAD – On Monday night, 23-year-old Jordan Larry was giving a back-to-school haircut to a kid in his south Moorhead neighborhood. On Tuesday night, his family members were going through his things, reminiscing on his life before the addiction and mourning his death. Larry was found lying on his bathroom floor in south Moorhead at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. Family members believe he aspirated while administering heroin, meaning he breathed vomit into his lungs. They called 911, performed CPR, intubated him for an hour-but he was gone. "So this kid that I brought into the world almost 24 years ago, I had to say goodbye," his mother, Lisa Jackson, said through tears as she sorted his clothes less than 12 hours later. "And tell him that I loved him and rest in peace. And I hope that he finds that peace." Jackson found out only in June that her son had been using heroin for about three years. She estimates he started experimenting with drugs at age 16 or 17, moving from marijuana to the Concerta that was prescribed for his ADHD, to ecstasy, cocaine, oxycodone and heroin. Over the past six months, he was in and out of jail four times, she said, mostly for felony charges in Cass County related to delivering oxycodone and heroin. Standing in the garage of their south Moorhead home Tuesday night, she pulled a blue tie-off, the strip of rubber used to restrict blood flow when administering heroin, out of one of the boxes. "This makes me sick," she said. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984608","attributes":{"alt":"A sympathy card that Lisa Jackson received. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"693","title":"A sympathy card that Lisa Jackson received. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]] To his family and friends, Larry was so much more than a heroin addict. He was a skateboarder, an adventurer, a talented barber and could build a bench out of wood scraps at the age of 8. "Jordan was the one that did everything that my daughter needed done, and he did it with a smile," his grandmother Cheri Simanovski said Tuesday. "He would lift things, he would do anything for my daughter. But this addiction ... " She paused, fighting back tears. The drugs changed Larry, his family members said. He stopped smiling, stopping cracking jokes. And he took up new habits. "Lying, stealing," Jackson said. "Manipulating?" her son Sonny Jackson, 17, suggested. "Yep. All of that," she said. "Having him live here was horrible because I love him, but it broke my heart because it's like being a hostage to someone's addiction. Where's your wallet, where's your purse. Is there anything missing? I had a lock on my bedroom door for years." [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984611","attributes":{"alt":"School photos of Jordan Larry, who was found dead of a drug overdose in a Moorhead home. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"667","title":"School photos of Jordan Larry, who was found dead of a drug overdose in a Moorhead home. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]] Although he left jail with a drug patch that was supposed to monitor his intake, Larry skirted the patch-perhaps by washing it or taking it off, Jackson said. Regardless, he was still using drugs and frequenting pawn shops to pay for them. He lived with her, except when she threw him out for the heroin, but she took him back when he became homeless. "My son was still in there somewhere, but drugs take over entire people, and Jordan hated himself because of it," she said. Despite that, his family is certain the death was not a suicide, a possibility that Moorhead police said they would investigate. "Jordan wanted to live, this was not his intention," Simanovski said. "Jordan loved life."
A friend was actually at the door to pick him up Tuesday morning, when Jackson went down to check on him and found the bathroom door locked. She called his phone, pounded on the door and took the hinges off with her husband George Jackson's help. Police responded to the medical call at 7:45 a.m. and seized heroin from the home, Lt. Tory Jacobson said later that day. The official cause of death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner's office in Ramsey County. Jackson doesn't know what her message is for other parents. She realizes jail isn't a rehabilitation facility, but she doesn't think such centers, including the one where her son spent five days, are effective. She knows one thing, though. "I don't ever want anyone else to have to find their 24 or 23-year-old child on the floor, dead from a heroin overdose."MOORHEAD – On Monday night, 23-year-old Jordan Larry was giving a back-to-school haircut to a kid in his south Moorhead neighborhood.On Tuesday night, his family members were going through his things, reminiscing on his life before the addiction and mourning his death.Larry was found lying on his bathroom floor in south Moorhead at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. Family members believe he aspirated while administering heroin, meaning he breathed vomit into his lungs. They called 911, performed CPR, intubated him for an hour-but he was gone."So this kid that I brought into the world almost 24 years ago, I had to say goodbye," his mother, Lisa Jackson, said through tears as she sorted his clothes less than 12 hours later. "And tell him that I loved him and rest in peace. And I hope that he finds that peace."Jackson found out only in June that her son had been using heroin for about three years. She estimates he started experimenting with drugs at age 16 or 17, moving from marijuana to the Concerta that was prescribed for his ADHD, to ecstasy, cocaine, oxycodone and heroin.Over the past six months, he was in and out of jail four times, she said, mostly for felony charges in Cass County related to delivering oxycodone and heroin.Standing in the garage of their south Moorhead home Tuesday night, she pulled a blue tie-off, the strip of rubber used to restrict blood flow when administering heroin, out of one of the boxes."This makes me sick," she said.
To his family and friends, Larry was so much more than a heroin addict. He was a skateboarder, an adventurer, a talented barber and could build a bench out of wood scraps at the age of 8."Jordan was the one that did everything that my daughter needed done, and he did it with a smile," his grandmother Cheri Simanovski said Tuesday. "He would lift things, he would do anything for my daughter. But this addiction ... " She paused, fighting back tears.The drugs changed Larry, his family members said. He stopped smiling, stopping cracking jokes. And he took up new habits."Lying, stealing," Jackson said."Manipulating?" her son Sonny Jackson, 17, suggested."Yep. All of that," she said. "Having him live here was horrible because I love him, but it broke my heart because it's like being a hostage to someone's addiction. Where's your wallet, where's your purse. Is there anything missing? I had a lock on my bedroom door for years."[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984611","attributes":{"alt":"School photos of Jordan Larry, who was found dead of a drug overdose in a Moorhead home. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"667","title":"School photos of Jordan Larry, who was found dead of a drug overdose in a Moorhead home. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]]Although he left jail with a drug patch that was supposed to monitor his intake, Larry skirted the patch-perhaps by washing it or taking it off, Jackson said. Regardless, he was still using drugs and frequenting pawn shops to pay for them. He lived with her, except when she threw him out for the heroin, but she took him back when he became homeless."My son was still in there somewhere, but drugs take over entire people, and Jordan hated himself because of it," she said.Despite that, his family is certain the death was not a suicide, a possibility that Moorhead police said they would investigate."Jordan wanted to live, this was not his intention," Simanovski said. "Jordan loved life."[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984615","attributes":{"alt":"Cheri Simanovski, left, is consoled by friend Anita Johnson. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"667","title":"Cheri Simanovski, left, is consoled by friend Anita Johnson. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]]A friend was actually at the door to pick him up Tuesday morning, when Jackson went down to check on him and found the bathroom door locked. She called his phone, pounded on the door and took the hinges off with her husband George Jackson's help.Police responded to the medical call at 7:45 a.m. and seized heroin from the home, Lt. Tory Jacobson said later that day. The official cause of death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner's office in Ramsey County.Jackson doesn't know what her message is for other parents. She realizes jail isn't a rehabilitation facility, but she doesn't think such centers, including the one where her son spent five days, are effective. She knows one thing, though."I don't ever want anyone else to have to find their 24 or 23-year-old child on the floor, dead from a heroin overdose."MOORHEAD – On Monday night, 23-year-old Jordan Larry was giving a back-to-school haircut to a kid in his south Moorhead neighborhood.On Tuesday night, his family members were going through his things, reminiscing on his life before the addiction and mourning his death.Larry was found lying on his bathroom floor in south Moorhead at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. Family members believe he aspirated while administering heroin, meaning he breathed vomit into his lungs. They called 911, performed CPR, intubated him for an hour-but he was gone."So this kid that I brought into the world almost 24 years ago, I had to say goodbye," his mother, Lisa Jackson, said through tears as she sorted his clothes less than 12 hours later. "And tell him that I loved him and rest in peace. And I hope that he finds that peace."Jackson found out only in June that her son had been using heroin for about three years. She estimates he started experimenting with drugs at age 16 or 17, moving from marijuana to the Concerta that was prescribed for his ADHD, to ecstasy, cocaine, oxycodone and heroin.Over the past six months, he was in and out of jail four times, she said, mostly for felony charges in Cass County related to delivering oxycodone and heroin.Standing in the garage of their south Moorhead home Tuesday night, she pulled a blue tie-off, the strip of rubber used to restrict blood flow when administering heroin, out of one of the boxes."This makes me sick," she said.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984608","attributes":{"alt":"A sympathy card that Lisa Jackson received. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"693","title":"A sympathy card that Lisa Jackson received. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]]To his family and friends, Larry was so much more than a heroin addict. He was a skateboarder, an adventurer, a talented barber and could build a bench out of wood scraps at the age of 8."Jordan was the one that did everything that my daughter needed done, and he did it with a smile," his grandmother Cheri Simanovski said Tuesday. "He would lift things, he would do anything for my daughter. But this addiction ... " She paused, fighting back tears.The drugs changed Larry, his family members said. He stopped smiling, stopping cracking jokes. And he took up new habits."Lying, stealing," Jackson said."Manipulating?" her son Sonny Jackson, 17, suggested."Yep. All of that," she said. "Having him live here was horrible because I love him, but it broke my heart because it's like being a hostage to someone's addiction. Where's your wallet, where's your purse. Is there anything missing? I had a lock on my bedroom door for years."
Although he left jail with a drug patch that was supposed to monitor his intake, Larry skirted the patch-perhaps by washing it or taking it off, Jackson said. Regardless, he was still using drugs and frequenting pawn shops to pay for them. He lived with her, except when she threw him out for the heroin, but she took him back when he became homeless."My son was still in there somewhere, but drugs take over entire people, and Jordan hated himself because of it," she said.Despite that, his family is certain the death was not a suicide, a possibility that Moorhead police said they would investigate."Jordan wanted to live, this was not his intention," Simanovski said. "Jordan loved life."[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984615","attributes":{"alt":"Cheri Simanovski, left, is consoled by friend Anita Johnson. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"667","title":"Cheri Simanovski, left, is consoled by friend Anita Johnson. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]]A friend was actually at the door to pick him up Tuesday morning, when Jackson went down to check on him and found the bathroom door locked. She called his phone, pounded on the door and took the hinges off with her husband George Jackson's help.Police responded to the medical call at 7:45 a.m. and seized heroin from the home, Lt. Tory Jacobson said later that day. The official cause of death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner's office in Ramsey County.Jackson doesn't know what her message is for other parents. She realizes jail isn't a rehabilitation facility, but she doesn't think such centers, including the one where her son spent five days, are effective. She knows one thing, though."I don't ever want anyone else to have to find their 24 or 23-year-old child on the floor, dead from a heroin overdose."MOORHEAD – On Monday night, 23-year-old Jordan Larry was giving a back-to-school haircut to a kid in his south Moorhead neighborhood.On Tuesday night, his family members were going through his things, reminiscing on his life before the addiction and mourning his death.Larry was found lying on his bathroom floor in south Moorhead at about 7 a.m. Tuesday. Family members believe he aspirated while administering heroin, meaning he breathed vomit into his lungs. They called 911, performed CPR, intubated him for an hour-but he was gone."So this kid that I brought into the world almost 24 years ago, I had to say goodbye," his mother, Lisa Jackson, said through tears as she sorted his clothes less than 12 hours later. "And tell him that I loved him and rest in peace. And I hope that he finds that peace."Jackson found out only in June that her son had been using heroin for about three years. She estimates he started experimenting with drugs at age 16 or 17, moving from marijuana to the Concerta that was prescribed for his ADHD, to ecstasy, cocaine, oxycodone and heroin.Over the past six months, he was in and out of jail four times, she said, mostly for felony charges in Cass County related to delivering oxycodone and heroin.Standing in the garage of their south Moorhead home Tuesday night, she pulled a blue tie-off, the strip of rubber used to restrict blood flow when administering heroin, out of one of the boxes."This makes me sick," she said.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984608","attributes":{"alt":"A sympathy card that Lisa Jackson received. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"693","title":"A sympathy card that Lisa Jackson received. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]]To his family and friends, Larry was so much more than a heroin addict. He was a skateboarder, an adventurer, a talented barber and could build a bench out of wood scraps at the age of 8."Jordan was the one that did everything that my daughter needed done, and he did it with a smile," his grandmother Cheri Simanovski said Tuesday. "He would lift things, he would do anything for my daughter. But this addiction ... " She paused, fighting back tears.The drugs changed Larry, his family members said. He stopped smiling, stopping cracking jokes. And he took up new habits."Lying, stealing," Jackson said."Manipulating?" her son Sonny Jackson, 17, suggested."Yep. All of that," she said. "Having him live here was horrible because I love him, but it broke my heart because it's like being a hostage to someone's addiction. Where's your wallet, where's your purse. Is there anything missing? I had a lock on my bedroom door for years."[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"1984611","attributes":{"alt":"School photos of Jordan Larry, who was found dead of a drug overdose in a Moorhead home. Rick Abbott / The Forum","class":"media-image","height":"667","title":"School photos of Jordan Larry, who was found dead of a drug overdose in a Moorhead home. Rick Abbott / The Forum","width":"1000"}}]]Although he left jail with a drug patch that was supposed to monitor his intake, Larry skirted the patch-perhaps by washing it or taking it off, Jackson said. Regardless, he was still using drugs and frequenting pawn shops to pay for them. He lived with her, except when she threw him out for the heroin, but she took him back when he became homeless."My son was still in there somewhere, but drugs take over entire people, and Jordan hated himself because of it," she said.Despite that, his family is certain the death was not a suicide, a possibility that Moorhead police said they would investigate."Jordan wanted to live, this was not his intention," Simanovski said. "Jordan loved life."
A friend was actually at the door to pick him up Tuesday morning, when Jackson went down to check on him and found the bathroom door locked. She called his phone, pounded on the door and took the hinges off with her husband George Jackson's help.Police responded to the medical call at 7:45 a.m. and seized heroin from the home, Lt. Tory Jacobson said later that day. The official cause of death has yet to be determined by the medical examiner's office in Ramsey County.Jackson doesn't know what her message is for other parents. She realizes jail isn't a rehabilitation facility, but she doesn't think such centers, including the one where her son spent five days, are effective. She knows one thing, though."I don't ever want anyone else to have to find their 24 or 23-year-old child on the floor, dead from a heroin overdose."
