Two people have been charged with murder for the fentanyl death of a toddler in March in Leavenworth, Kansas.

“The Leavenworth Police Department arrested 40-year-old Tara Huerta on Friday. The Kansas City Police Department arrested Kenneth Hedgecock, 34, days later,” WTVM reported .

The arrests occurred after a 3-year-old was found unresponsive in Huerta and Hedgecock’s apartment in March and was transported to a hospital. The child ultimately did not survive, and a May 29 autopsy report revealed the toddler died of acute fentanyl toxicity.

Briana Davis, the mother of “E-lah Brown Jr., known by loved ones as EJ,” told police her son fell asleep in her lap while she was receiving a face tattoo in Huerta’s apartment, and she left him to stay overnight with the couple.

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