(BCN) — 4 youngsters in Santa Rosa overdosed on suspected fentanyl this weekend and two died, police stated Sunday evening. A suspected drug supplier has been arrested and investigators are figuring out if all of the overdoses had been associated.
A 16-year-old Santa Rosa Excessive College lady and an 18-year-old male Montgomery Excessive College scholar had been discovered unresponsive in a mattress at a house within the 2100 block of Brookwood Drive on Saturday, in response to police. The feminine caller to 911 had entered the residence after nobody answered the door. Officers and first responders arrived at about 8:15 p.m. and the pair had been declared deceased quickly after, Santa Rosa Police stated.
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Earlier that day at 5:15 a.m., two extra ladies aged 14 and 16 had been hospitalized as a result of a suspected fentanyl overdose in Santa Rosa, in response to police. Detectives recognized a suspect within the deaths of the teenagers on Brookwood Drive as Ramon Nunez, 21. Investigators imagine the 4 overdose victims purchased what they thought was cocaine, however “was most likely fentanyl,” police stated in a launch despatched out Sunday evening.
It’s nonetheless being decided whether or not what the teenagers ingested was fentanyl or cocaine laced with fentanyl.
Based on police, Nunez was positioned round 12:45 p.m. on Sunday in his car parked within the parking zone of a retail enterprise within the 1900 block of Santa Rosa Avenue. Detectives obtained a search warrant for each Nunez and his car and allegedly positioned narcotics and different objects indicative of narcotic gross sales akin to small plastic baggies containing a “distinctive black peace sign logo believed to be linked to the overdose deaths of the two teenagers,” police stated.
Investigators imagine Nunez bought the narcotics that induced the loss of life of the youngsters and are investigating Nunez’s doable connection to different overdoses in Santa Rosa, the division stated.
Nunez was booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of two counts of second-degree murder and furnishing narcotics to a minor and a minor 4 or extra years youthful. He’s being held with out bail.
The 14-year-old and 16-year-old feminine overdose victims stay hospitalized, police stated. “Their names or schools of attendance will not be released at this time due to the ongoing investigation and to protect their privacy.”
Police famous that on Sunday night, Santa Rosa Metropolis Faculties launched a message referencing the loss of life of 4 college students. Two of the scholars are the 16 and 18-year-old victims referenced on this launch, Santa Rosa Police stated.
The third is a 19-year-old male and former scholar, and although medication are suspected in his loss of life, “it is unlikely to be related to this overdose death,” police stated. The fourth scholar is a 21-year-old male, who’s believed to died from pure causes. All 4 deaths are at the moment being investigated.
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