The deaths of five people in Commerce City, Colorado, on Feb. 20 were likely related to fentanyl, according to Adams County District Attorney Brian Mason. The bodies of the five people were discovered shortly before 4 p.m in an apartment inside the North Range Crossing apartment complex after an apparent overdose, authorities said. Commerce City is located in Adams County, about seven miles northeast of Denver. While officials have not yet determined the cause of death, police said they recovered narcotics that had a presumptive positive test result for the presence of fentanyl, a highly addictive and deadly drug of which just a two-milligram dose can prove fatal. “Although the investigation is still ongoing, it appears the five adults ingested the suspect fentanyl and succumbed to the narcotic,” police said. District Attorney Mason told Colorado Public Radio that the scene inside the apartment was like something “out of a nightmare, like a homicide scene.” He said that the five …
Fentanyl Linked to Deaths of 5 Adults in Colorado as Overdoses Reach ‘Epic Proportions’: Officials
February 22, 2022
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