A Tennessee man has been charged in the death of his 23-month-old son, who died of a fatal fentanyl-related overdose in October, the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (MNPD) announced.
Kelvin Blaylock Jr., 22, was arrested Thursday on warrants for murder and aggravated child neglect by juvenile bureau detectives who had been investigating his son's death for the past three months, MNPD said in a statement. thing.
Blaylock called 911 on Oct. 3 to report that she woke up inside the Ireland Street residence and found her son, Kashton Blaylock, unresponsive. The child's mother sent her son to stay with her father while she went to work.
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Kelvin Blaylock was charged with criminal homicide and aggravated child neglect after his 23-month-old son died from the toxic effects of fentanyl and methnitazene. (Nashville Metropolitan Police Department)
Officers were called to the scene and Kashton Blaylock was rushed to Centennial Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
An autopsy determined that his death was caused by the toxic effects of fentanyl and metnitazene, a relatively new highly potent synthetic opioid also known by the street name “Pyro,” which has become increasingly popular in the United States. I'm here. The child managed to take the medicine.
In an interview Wednesday, Blaylock admitted to using heroin two hours before she found her son unresponsive, according to MNPD.
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Blaylock is already in jail on an unrelated charge of failing to appear in court.
The child's mother, Kashton Lamont Blaylock, set up a GoFundMe after her son's death, describing him as “smart, strong, loving and outgoing.”
A bag of fentanyl pills. Kelvin Blaylock, 22, was charged with criminal homicide and aggravated child neglect after her son died from an overdose of fentanyl and methnitazene. (U.S. Attorney's Office)
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“I am a single mother of two handsome young boys that I love and it hurts so much that one of them was taken from me when I had so much life left,” she wrote.
More than 79,000 Americans over the age of 55 died from an opioid overdose between 1999 and 2019, according to a recently released Senate report.
The overdose death rate increased from 3 per 100,000 people in 2002 to 12 per 100,000 people in 2021, according to the report.
The Nashville Metropolitan Police Department announced that Kelvin Blaylock Jr., 22, has been issued warrants for murder and aggravated child neglect. (Nashville Metropolitan Police Department)
