BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Nearly a year after North Dakota college student Andrew Sadek’s body was found in a river with a bullet in the head, his mother still struggles with how her shy son who liked to bowl and belonged to a club of electricity enthusiasts got mixed up in the dangerous world of illegal drugs.
Tammy Sadek believes the answer is that Andrew signed his own death warrant when he agreed to become a confidential informant for police after they caught him selling marijuana. Authorities say he knew what he was getting into and agreed to help them of his own free will.
Still, people who knew Sadek are shocked by what happened.
“He was a gentle soul,” said Kristi Brandt, principal of Valley City High School, from which Sadek graduated.
Investigators haven’t concluded whether Sadek was slain or killed himself. Adding to the mystery, a gun that fires the same caliber bullet that killed Sadek is missing from their family farm near the tiny town of Rogers.