Police say the batch of fentanyl targeted a neighborhood near the Southwest Waterfront in January and sent five others who survived to the hospital.
At a news conference Wednesday, D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III called fentanyl a “poison that is being peddled in our community.” He added: “The amount of fentanyl it takes to take a person’s life, you can barely see with a naked eye.”Story continues below advertisement
Most people died that day and in that one neighborhood, though police said some deaths occurred in other parts of the city. In at least one case, a person who died wasn’t found until February. The deaths weren’t connected until tests from autopsies were finalized.The ages of the nine people who died ranged from 43 to 74 years old. Five were women. Eight of the victims lived in Southeast and Southwest Washington; one had no fixed address.
Edwin Chapman, a doctor in private practice who has been treating patients with opioid addiction for the past 22 years in as a “pillar of the community” she lived in for the past half-century. The day the fentanyl hit the streets, the woman’s daughter found her unconscious in her kitchen.
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