State police are charging a 22-year-old upstate New York man with supplying alcohol to a 17-year-old girl and her friends before she died in a cottage fire.
Trevor Tormey of Erieville faces three misdemeanor counts of unlawfully dealing with a child.
Troopers say Julia Parker, a senior at Cazenovia High School, was partying at the Madison County cottage with several other teen-agers when it caught fire in April. Parker died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The others escaped.
Toxicology tests showed that Parker’s blood alcohol content was 0.18 percent when she died — more than double the 0.08 legal limit for driving while intoxicated.
Investigators said the fire originated in a wood stove and ruled the blaze accidental.
Tormey will be arraigned after he gets a lawyer.
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