Fentanyl Claims Another Victim In Wave Of Overdoses In Sacramento County
Jerome Butler was taken off life support Wednesday. "This is a real public safety issue. We have lost so many of our kids behind this pill," his mother, Natasha Butler, said. "All the parents that [have] lost their kids behind this, we have to stand together. We have to get it stopped.”
The Sacramento Bee:
Deadly Street Drug Fentanyl Kills Again In Sacramento
A young father of three children has become the first publicly known victim in an alarming wave of Sacramento County overdoses involving the powerful painkiller fentanyl. Family members of Jerome Butler, 28, said doctors removed him from life support systems on Wednesday afternoon, a few days after he took a pill that is believed to have been laced with fentanyl. Similar overdoses have killed six other people and sent 21 more to area hospitals. (Buck and Hubert, 3/30)