Justin Pittman, 22, of Livermore, told police that he and his daughter slept in his bed together and that when he woke up, she was purple.
LIVERMORE — The father of a 1-year-old girl who died from apparently ingesting fentanyl has been arrested and charged with murdering her by leaving the deadly drug in a location where she could easily access it, court records show.
Francesca was declared dead Aug. 18 after being rush to a hospital from her home on the 200 block of Turnstone Drive. Police say they were called there around 4:30 p.m. to a report of a large group of family members screaming outside the home that a young child was dead or dying, and attempting CPR. When police arrived, a family member told them they’d overheard Pittman telling paramedics to give his daughter narcan, a drug used to treat fentanyl overdoses. When asked, he told officers he believed she had ingested fentanyl, and that he’d used the drug two days earlier, according to court records.
“Make me,” Pittman allegedly told the deputy before grabbing Herrera’s wrist. Herrera wrote in court records he knocked Pittman over with a “sweeping leg kick” and arrested him. Pittman was subsequently released from jail, and charged with two misdemeanors in late September.The girl was the city’s fourth fentanyl-related death in Livermore in 2022. There were an estimated 71,000 fentanyl overdoses last year, well more than the number of gun-related homicides or overdoses by other drugs.
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