LOS ANGELES—Three men are dead on May 5 in downtown Los Angeles after police say they ingested the drug fentanyl.
A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer who responded to their apartment is in the hospital after possibly inhaling the drug accidentally.
Police were called at 11:45 p.m. on May 4 to the 600 block of Spring Street after a relative of the men contacted authorities to conduct a welfare check at the residence, said Officer Melissa Podany of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Mirko Salaris, 48, Jason Turnage, 47, and a third man died at the scene, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
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