One of the people who fatally overdosed on fentanyl sold by a crew of dealers busted in Washington Square Park Thursday was a Colorado teenager who had come to the Big Apple last year to start an internship with a non-profit and help on a Broadway theater production, according to sources and her family.
Bailey Shaw, 18, was one of the two people who died in just a six-month stretch last year after buying drugs from the crew, which calls itself WSP Enterprise, sources told The Post.
The tragic teen was a “rising star” Aspen transplant who was set to start an internship with the non-profit, Broadway Cares, when she took the fatal drugs in June 2024, Shaw’s family told the Aspen Daily News at the time.
“Bailey got to [New York City] and was just overjoyed to launch her new life,” her dad, Daniel Shaw, said.
“She was about one of the funniest people you would ever want to meet. She was an incredibly complex person who struggled at times but had really found her path and passion in the theater, in her community.”
Shaw, who had recently graduated from Aspen High School, was also set to start helping with stage management Broadway Bares, a burlesque-style performance at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
Local theater director Casey Trascik said she had a special spark for the stage and was highly driven.
“Just getting your foot in the door that way, getting in the room is incredible,” said Trascik, who is the director of ASD Theater Technical Director in Aspen. “ I feel like that really speaks to who Bailey was…you knew this person was special and you wanted to snap them up.”
On Thursday, nearly 20 dealers, whose coordinated peddling of dangerous narcotics in and around the famed greenspace caused a rash of overdoses, were hit with charges in a federal indictment.
