A 13-year-old boy who fell unconscious at his Connecticut school last week after coming into contact with fentanyl has died, authorities said.
The seventh grader, who was one of three teens taken to a hospital on Thursday after coming into contact with the deadly drug inside Sport and Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford, died on Saturday evening, Hartford police said in a statement.
The magnet school’s roughly 600 students had been ordered to shelter in place after the child collapsed inside of the school’s gymnasium just before 11 a.m. Suspected narcotics that were found close by later tested positive for fentanyl, police said.
A consequential sweep of the school by drug-sniffing dogs recovered nearly 40 bags of the synthetic opioid which the boy, who was fatally sickened, is believed to have brought to the school. The other two teenagers who complained of feeling dizzy were released from the hospital after likely having “minimal” contact with the drug, said Hartford Police Lieutenant Aaron Boisvert at a press conference. Continue Reading
