Police recovered about 100 bags of fentanyl from the bedroom of a 13-year-old who died after a presumed fentanyl exposure at his school in Hartford, Connecticut.
Forty bags of fentanyl were also removed from the teen's school, according to police. Both sets of bags were packaged the same way and marked with a similar stamp, according to a press release by the Hartford Police Department.The young teenager died on January 15, two days after he was found unconscious after a presumed fentanyl exposure at the Sport and Medical Sciences Academy. 'use strict';CNN.Videx=CNN.Videx || {};CNN.Videx.mobile={};CNN.INJECTOR.executeFeature.then {CNN.
Dr. Gupta explains why opioids so addictive 00:55Two other male students, also seventh graders, who came into contact with the fentanyl at the same time were taken to a hospital and later released, police said."We can confidently say that the fentanyl that caused the overdose [of the juvenile] was the same fentanyl that was located in the juvenile's bedroom," Hartford police said in the release.
This is your brain on pain 01:39Authorities do not have a suspect at this time, Boisvert told CNN. The teen's mother is cooperating with authorities, who have found no evidence that suggests she had prior knowledge of her son's fentanyl possession, the release said.The 13-year-old had no prior history of narcotics, according to the release.
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