Police in State College have said Gross’ death appears to be accidental, but her mother isn’t entirely convinced, NJ.com reported.
The teen sent a Snapchat message just moments before her fateful plunge telling a friend, “Something just happened” late Nov. 10. Francoise Gross said she traveled to Penn State to meet with cops, who showed her video of her daughter’s final moments.
The footage shows Justine leaving her 10th-floor apartment and walking to meet the man on the seventh floor, where she later leaves while walking unsteadily. She never returned to her apartment — and instead ran into the 11th-floor trash chute room by herself and disappeared, NJ.com reported.
“That’s just not Justine,” her mom said. “She would never do something like that, go down a chute.
“They want me to believe she walked into that chute. I believe someone was chasing her, and she went into the chute, thinking it was a staircase.”
“I will bury her,” Francoise Gross told NJ.com. “But I want to know what happened to her.”
Francoise said cops have questioned the man twice but that “he’s not talking” after hiring a lawyer, according to the report.
State College police didn’t return phone calls Thursday, NJ.com reported. A Penn State spokeswoman said Justine’s death occurred off-campus and that it would be “inappropriate” for the university to interfere with the investigation.