“I will never recover from my oldest son being poisoned and taken from me,” his mother said in a sentencing memo.
A San Diego man who sold a fentanyl-laced pill to a 15-year-old Coronado High School sophomore, leading to the teen's death, was sentenced Tuesday to more than 13 years in prison.
Learn more about the impact of the fentanyl crisis on local communities in NBC 7’s in-depth project"Poison Pill: San Diego's Battle With the Fentanyl Crisis."That day, police and paramedics responding to a 911 call found the teen dead in his Coronado bedroom. His death was the result of “acute fentanyl intoxication,” according to the county medical examiner's office.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
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