“1-Year-Old Baby Found Dead in Staten Island Home – Homicide Case Involving Cocaine and Fentanyl”

Jakarta –

A 1 year old baby on Staten Island, United States was found dead on February 20, 2023. The baby is known as Sakani Kamagate.

New York Police officers initially responded to a 911 call around 4 a.m. from a St George area home on Staten Island. When they got there, the police found the baby unconscious in his bed.

“On arrival, officers observed a 16-month-old male, unconscious and unresponsive, in bed in the bedroom,” the New York Police said. MetroThursday (4/5/2023).

“Emergency Medical Services (EMS) rushed to the scene and took the baby to the University of Richmond Medical Center. There he was declared dead,” he continued.

From the results of the investigation, on May 3, 2023 the police announced that the case of Kamagate’s death has now been considered a homicide. A medical examination revealed that Kamagate died from ingesting cocaine and fentanyl.

Until now the investigation is still ongoing and no arrests have been made by the New York Police.

Fentanyl is a strong synthetic opioid that has recently caused a drug epidemic in the United States.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control, 107,375 people in the United States died from drug overdoses in the 12 month period to January 2022. About 67 percent of these deaths were due to synthetic opioids, including fentanyl.

Cases of child deaths due to drugs are not the first time this has happened in the United States. In September 2022, a 15-year-old student in California died in his school bathroom from an overdose.

The student got the drugs from drug dealers operating in one of the parks in Los Angeles. The female student who originally intended to buy the Percocet was given a counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl.

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