A man in northern Indiana is accused of causing the death of his girlfriend by giving her a fatal dose of fentanyl .

Jeremy Duvall, 45, has been charged with dealing a controlled substance resulting in death, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. While the charge was filed this week, the incident is said to have occurred over the summer.

It was June 27, and Duvall and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Keana Swafford, were at a home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. At one point, the defendant said he saw Swafford standing by a bed smoking fentanyl, but then he fell asleep. When he woke up, he found her face down on the floor, per court documents reviewed by local ABC and NBC affiliate WPTA.

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