Woman Dies After Eating Raw Mushroom in Sushi Roll: Family

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Donna Ventura went out to lunch and her family says she ordered the special roll at a sushi restaurant. An hour later, Ventura was clinging to life with severe food poisoning. She later died in the hospital. The health department says the morel mushrooms that were served to Ventura were raw. They also say over 50 individuals reported becoming sick after consuming morel mushrooms at Dave's Sushi Restaurant in Bozeman, Montana. Her family is suing the restaurant which denies any wrongdoing. Inside Edition’s Jim Moret has more.

All Comments (21)

@LesssGames256 21 days ago

Over 50 hospitalized customers... denies wrongdoing.
@number36420 14 days ago

First red flag is a place called “Dave’s sushi”
@shailasultana3700 14 days ago

The restaurant should be closed permanently
@user-nk3ku3pw6p 14 days ago

Denies any wrong doing? I can’t believe the nerve of those people.
@KasaniGT 21 days ago

restaurant denies any wrongdoing? how shameful
@Daria-Morgendorffer 21 days ago

losing your wife of 33 years because some idiot didn't cook a mushroom must feel impossible to accept, you'd be so used to having her around then losing her so suddenly for no good reason and knowing how much pain she felt...it's so unfair. Feel so awful for the family
@marcane6122 10 days ago

Sushi made by a guy named Dave should have been the first red flag.
@DavidJohnson-dc8lu 14 days ago

Restaurant served up raw mushrooms which saw someone die and 50 people hospitalized, he should be up for manslaughter charges.
@rahl169 21 days ago

50 people get sick, all who ate at your restaurant, and you have the audacity to claim no responsibility? Truly, our society is shameless
@ahmadjcharles 14 days ago

Next time you wonder why Gordon Ramsey yells so much in Kitchen Nightmares, remember this video.
@tsdfghjkl 13 days ago

I'm Japanese, and that's why I was against sushi becoming popular abroad. Sushi is a very delicate food, and in Japan it is made by chefs who have been trained for several years. I've had sushi in the US and it was really low quality, like learning how to make sushi from how to videos on Youtube or tiktok. Incidentally, there is no such thing as raw mushroom sushi in Japan.
@korama5676 14 days ago

This restaurant will be sued into oblivion
@dablazarus7303 21 days ago

If that were my wife, and the restaurant denied any wrongdoing, you'd see me on the news in an orange jumpsuit.
@thethundernado6670 21 days ago

Hearing the husband try to talk was painful. You can hear him mourning. This was just awful what happened to this poor lady.
@essiebessie661 14 days ago

She died in pain, which is inexcusable. Why didn’t they treat her pain?!
@jaehongsong4904 11 days ago

What kind of a monster is the owner to deny any wrongdoing. I would die of shame and guilt if that was me
@AnonymousCommenter769 21 days ago

They need to press charges against that food company.
@zepho100 14 days ago

There's no way I could accept that level of negligence, I'd be in prison.
@JoRN1222 11 days ago

That poor woman. My sympathies to her family.
@MP-zw5vg 14 days ago

I live in Japan and there is never any mushroom in authentic sushi. People around the world should only eat sushi prepared by licensed Japanese chefs. Prompto.