The death by overdose of her friend Brian O’Shea on Feb. 8, 2022, had shaken up Stephanie Marie Raimundo to the point that even when she recalled it on the stand almost two years later, during the murder trial of the man who injected O’Shea with a fatal dose of fentanyl, Raimundo–who’d held it together most of the time–ended up in tears.
Raimundo, 47, had been a roommate of Brian Pirraglia and a friend of O’Shea’s. O’Shea, 38, had gotten out of jail that very day after serving several months for a cocaine possession. He went to Pirraglia’s house–and shot up.
Pirraglia banged on Raimundo’s bedroom door, begging her for narcan, the neutralizing agent addicts take to reverse the effects of an overdose. She didn’t have any (her drug of choice was meth). O’Shea died. Pirraglia was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
O’Shea’s death had not shaken up Raimundo to the point of changing her habits. Last Wednesday, she was charged with manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of Calvin Stull, who was found dead of an overdose at Belle Terre Park on Jan. 3–less than a year after O’Shea’s death.
It is a lesser charge than than that faced by Pirraglia and many others similarly charged after being accused of causing drug-overdose deaths. That may be the result of Raimundo’s role as a state’s witness in Pirraglia’s trial.
Stull died on on his 22nd birthday, or just hours before it. Flagler County Sheriff’s detectives reconstructed his last hours based on pieces of paper, belongings, and surveillance video. He had last been to McDonald’s at 4:30 p.m. the afternoon of Jan. 2. Surveillance video captured him biking north on Belle Terre Parkway, turning into Parkview Drive at 5:07 p.m., and entering the park near Wadsworth Elementary at 5:42 p.m. He had died with a cell phone and a lighter in his hand, and small bags containing fentanyl on him. For whatever reason, his phone included a screenshot of Google maps, showing him at Raimundo’s house that afternoon.
Detectives immediately identified Raimundo as a suspect, according to her arrest affidavit. She lived nearby. Detectives had conducted an under-cover drug buy, sending an informant to her residence at 77-A Plainview Drive. She sold him bags identical to those found on Stull–with yellow car symbols on them. Detectives then searched Raimundo’s place after getting a warrant from County Judge Andrea Totten. Detectives interviewed Raimundo, who “made several incriminating statements and ultimately confessed to selling Calvin Heroin and fentanyl,” according to her arrest affidavit.
She told deputies that she’d gotten home from work in midafternoon on Jan. 2. Stull got there shortly after, with McDonald’s food. He was there for about 20 minutes. She told detectives she sold him $10 to $20 worth of heroin and fentanyl. Heroin and Fentanyl before he biked away. The timing of their encounter is also documented in Facebook Messenger and texts.
Raimundo ” was fully aware of the nature of the narcotics she provided to Calvin and the associated risks,” her arrest affidavit states. “As a result, she has been charged with Manslaughter in the death of Calvin Stull.” The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison if she is found guilty. It could be reduced in a plea. But Raimundo faces numerous other charges.
Raimundo has been at the Flagler County jail since she was arrested just over a year ago on a slew of trafficking and possession charges, including a first-degree felony charge of trafficking fentanyl, a first-degree felony charge of trafficking meth, and a second-degree felony charge of possessing cocaine with intent to sell–eight drug-related felony charges in all. The charges were consolidated for trial, before the new charge of manslaughter.
She has a 5-year-old son. She had shared custody of the child with the child’s biological father until she was incarcerated. She testified at Pirraglia’s trial in her orange county jail jumpsuit, and the jury was made aware of the pending charge against her.
MeToo says
Wow! So sad. 22 years old. R.I.P. Your turmoil is over. I feel sorry for the 5 year old that will not be raised by his mother. She deserves a very long sentence.
Pam says
For the record: Stephanie informed me after O’Shea had the fatal OD, that she did have Narcan in her room, wouldn’t open her door when it was requested; and she felt guilty, that she could’ve saved him. Also, Pirraglia did not inject O’Shea; how, where and when he got the fatal dose is unknown. Stephanie was not a credible witness.
Samuel says
Life in Prison works.
Steve says
Lock Her up
Steve says
What goes around comes around. Karma is real. Just ask Jayden.
Brittany Wyche says
You can’t blame that on her she didn’t shoot him up with the drugs he did it himself she didn’t ask them to watch his every movement you can only blame your self for what happened to him……she should not have to server life in prison because of a decision that he made to take the drugs to get the drugs and take them so that’s on him behind every action there’s a reaction.
Jason says
@ Brittany Wyche, if multiple suspects commit a robbery and the victim shoots and kills one or more suspects in self-defense then all that participated, that are still alive, will get charged with murder. This is no different. If you peddle drugs, and someone dies using those drugs, then you are committing a crime and you and everyone associated in the distribution chain should be charged with that murder. Don’t like it? Then don’t be a garbage human being by selling illegal drugs that are literally the number one cause of death in this country.
Florida Girl says
Well then, here is your chance to make a real difference in this world. Stand with her, be sure you put money on her commissary – and who couldn’t use an understanding compassionate ear, or pen rather – write her! Share your thoughts with her on how jacked-up it is that she the drug dealer was held accountable.
See the difference between addict and entity is this. An addict violently hurts self. Entity violently hurts others, and community. Addicts have a chance of recovery, where entity’s only chance at recovery comes in the form of, “Department of Corrections…”
AND for whatever it is worth, his instincts had him screen shot where he was so she COULD be found if something like his death happened. You hear cray stories about that all the time, someone saying, I had a gut feeling, or something told me…
Lock this pos up and keep her there!
~Pleasantly pleased in the E Section
Skibum says
Brittany, if you believe this drug dealer had no responsibility for causing the death of that man after she sold him a lethal amount of illegal drugs, your opinion is definitely in the minority. Her drug dealing is especially egregious since she previously was involved in a criminal trial of another person who died after being sold a lethal dose of drugs by someone else who she knew, so it is preposterous to try to minimize what she did when her actions directly led to the death of another human being. Oh boo hoo, she is a mom, her young son needs here, yada, yada, yada. I think it is a very good thing for this despicable drug dealing “mom” to be removed from her son’s life because SHE is and has been the most significant danger to him in his young life! Maybe, just maybe, now that she will be in prison and someone else will be raising her son, he just might have the proper parenting and good influences to allow him to make good choices in his own life, completely separate and away from the very bad influence which was his own mother.
Land of no turn signals says says
Just to add Joe won’t pardon her because he’s day’s away from getting booted out and wasted a big one on Hunter.
JimboXYZ says
Exactly.