(KRON) — A Daly Metropolis man who’s charged with murdering 29-year-old Sarah Tillman appeared in court docket on Tuesday.
Phillip Thei Ng, 58, of Daly Metropolis, is accused of promoting medication to Tillman earlier than she died from a fentanyl overdose inside her San Mateo dwelling on Could 6, 2023.
Ng has pleaded not responsible to first-degree homicide. His preliminary listening to is scheduled to start on the San Mateo County Corridor of Justice on April 17. He stays locked in jail with out bail.
Tillman graduated from Harvard College with a level in neurobiology, court docket information present. She earned a grasp’s diploma in medical science on the College of Southern California, her LinkedIn web page states.
In 2023, Tillman was working for a Silicon Valley firm and making use of to medical faculties. She was additionally scuffling with addictions and alcoholism, based on prosecutors. In early 2023, she met Ng and commenced shopping for medication from him, prosecutors mentioned.
Sarah Tillman (Picture by way of Fb / Sarah Tillman)
Tillman died from a mix of fentanyl, bromazepam, and amphetamine, court docket information present.
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After San Mateo Police Division officers discovered Tillman deceased from a drug overdose, officers found textual content messages that exposed she purchased the medication from Ng, prosecutors mentioned.
In line with a wrongful dying civil lawsuit, the sufferer’s mother and father imagine their daughter didn’t know that the medication contained fentanyl.
