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The San Francisco Standard<\/strong><\/a> has an interesting piece on Thrasher<\/strong><\/em> owner Tony Vitello<\/strong> made up of quotes from a September 2022 interview in which he discusses Jake Phelps’<\/strong> fentanyl overdose and why Thrasher<\/em> didn’t mention Phelps’ cause of death when the news broke. And, more importantly, why Tony was even willing to speak about Phelps’ death with The Standard<\/em> in the first place:<\/p>\n “There was some concern about Jake\u2019s parent\u2019s reaction to how he passed. And my position was\u2014and has always been\u2014that his family\u2019s word is the word I go by. And that\u2019s why we\u2019re here in this interview today because Marie [Phelps] told me that she wants to talk about it and that she thinks it\u2019s important to talk about.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n This appears to be a follow-up\/add-on of sorts on The Standard’s<\/em> previous story by David Sjostedt<\/strong> titled The Killer of a Skateboarding Legend Went Unnamed for Years. Could Deaths Have Been Prevented<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n No one is ever happy with these kinds of stories. And yes, it’s kind of sus to point the finger at anyone for how they handled a personal tragedy while they were in the middle of it. Drugs are bad, kids. Don’t do ’em.<\/p>\n