Really? I'm pretty sure everyone knows that. There would also be consequences for illegally supplying drugs, so if this person did that, they should also face them. His family just lost their kid. He's dead, he's not coming back. I find their reaction pretty normal, and what would you have them do? "Well, Tyler made his choice. I hope the drug dealer moves on from this and becomes a stronger person." That drunk driving analogy is pretty terrible. I can go to Pick n Save and buy a handle of Vodka, chug it in the parking lot and go home. There's no crime there other than the one I committed. But if you struck and killed a pedestrian on your way home you'd probably be serving 10-15 years, just like that. There's certainly some blame to go around, but Skaggs did pay for poor choices. Obviously, I feel awful for his family regardless, and I'm sure this doesn't make it easier. I don't see that them saying it was out of character is blaming someone else for it. I'm sure it's devastating news for them. My point wasn't about not hitting a pedestrian. It's that the crime can be committed without anyone else breaking the law. That's probably not the case here, where you first need to find someone else doing something probably against the law. I'm not seeing anything really egregious about the family statement. It's basically Tyler made a mistake and we have an attorney for the potential civil suit, I'd guess? Everyone knows he was dumb to do what he did. It literally makes no difference in assigning blame to this other party. Nobody is making the argument that he didn't seek out the drugs or make a series of bad choices. It's nauseating to see that point brought up every time some celebrity overdoses. We all get it - you're really not being a hard ass or going against the grain. Drugs are bad and he shouldn't have been using them? Gee, whoa. He is dead so it is difficult to blame him in court.