Former Boston College student admits role in convincing her boyfriend to kill himself by jumping off a Northeastern garage

Inyoung You, present 23, contiguous admitted she helped drive her fellow Alexander Urtula to suicide the time helium was expected to postgraduate from Boston College successful 2019, the Suffolk County District Attorney's bureau reports.

After You pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter astatine a Suffolk Superior Court hearing, Judge Robert Ullmann sentenced her to 2 1/2 years successful jailhouse - but suspended that for a 10-year play of probation, the DA's bureau says. During the archetypal 5 years of that probation, she volition person to bash assemblage work and proceed to acquisition mental-health treatment. She is besides barred from making immoderate wealth from selling her oregon Urtula's story.

On May 20, 2019, conscionable 90 minutes earlier the commencement of commencement astatine BC, Urtula threw himself disconnected of the apical of Northeastern University's Renaissance Garage connected Columbus Avenue, the culmination of what prosecutors called a "tumultuous" narration successful which Urtula became severely depressed and You began encouraging him to perpetrate suicide.

After wide publicity astir the case, 2 different radical committed termination astatine the Renaissance the store that twelvemonth - 1 a parent who jumped with her 2 children, who besides died.

After the deaths, Northeastern installed floor-to-ceiling fencing connected each of the garage's floors.