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Man charged with murder in connection with California teen's fatal fentanyl overdose in 2020 – East Bay Times

A 20-year-old Hemet man is charged with murder in Riverside County after he was accused of selling an illegal substance containing fentanyl to a teenage girl who fatally overdosed in 2020.

The teenager did not know she had taken fentanyl and was found unresponsive on July 28, 2020, in the 1900 block of Warwick Street in San Jacinto, officials said. She died at the scene of fentanyl poisoning, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said in a news release Monday.