After fentanyl killed 15 people in seven months in Wichita Falls, overwhelming grief left parents desperate to assign blame and police and city officials...
Fentanyl had killed 15 people in seven months in Wichita Falls. Overwhelming grief left parents desperate to assign blame and police and city officials vying for a chance to prove how tough they could be on crime.
Wednesday afternoon, the jury found Jimenez, 22, guilty of murder. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison. After last year’s news conference, Gillespie couldn’t help but wonder if anyone was listening. Less than a month later, three people were found dead of fentanyl overdoses over the course of a single weekend in September: 21-year-old Adam Sattler, 19-year-old Alizé Martinez and 13-year-old Kaysen Villarreal.
“That’s what wrecks my brain,” Melo said. “If the shoe would’ve been on the other foot, Kaysen never would’ve done that. Silvia Martinez wipes away tears in her living room as she speaks about her 19-year-old daughter Alizé Martinez who died from a fentanyl poisoning. She is pictured at her Wichita Falls, Texas, home September 26, 2023.Police made the same promise to Silvia Martinez, who found her 19-year-old daughter Alizé dead of an overdose in her bedroom the morning before Kaysen’s body was found.
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