Drug-Induced Homicide Near Morris, Prison Term Ordered

MORRIS, IL — Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued a press release drawing attention to this week's guilty plea from Scott Robbins, 28, of Morris for the drug-induced homicide of a Goose Lake woman in March 2020.

Robbins was sentenced to seven years in prison by Grundy County Circuit Court Judge Scott Belt after he pleaded guilty to one count of drug-induced homicide, a Class X felony.

“My heart goes out to the family and loved ones of the victim, and it is my hope that this sentence brings them some measure of healing,” Raoul announced in his press release. “The collaborative work between my office, the Grundy County State’s Attorney and Sheriff’s Department has resulted in an individual being held accountable for bringing dangerous narcotics into the community with tragic results.”

According to Raoul’s office, on March 25, 2020, Robbins delivered bags of narcotics, later determined to be fentanyl, to the Goose Lake home of Keegan Kenney, 25. Kenney, who was Robbins’ former girlfriend and had just returned home from a rehab facility where she was treated for heroin addiction, died the next day from fentanyl and diphenhydramine intoxication.

The Grundy County Sheriff’s Department lead the investigation of this case. Attorney General Raoul’s office co-prosecuted this case with Grundy County State’s Attorney Russ Baker.

“Scott Robbins, operating as a drug dealer, brokered access of heroin/fentanyl to Keegan, someone he supposedly cared about, hours after she got out of rehab and was locked down at her parents’ house,” Baker announced in the press release. “But for the defendant’s actions, Keegan would be alive, yet he made money off of her addiction that cost her life.”

Deputy Bureau Chief Andrew Whitfield handled the case for Raoul’s Statewide Grand Jury Bureau.

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