Bornstein himself was in shock. The former dockworker and current president of Teamsters Local 24 in Akron, Ohio, had decided to speak to the gathering to raise awareness about the disease that had taken his son Tyler —a college student on a golf and academic scholarship who was left by his drug-using buddies to die in an empty field of an overdose of heroin and fentanyl in 2014. He died three months after returning to Ohio from a sober living facility in Florida.