Crime & Safety
Norristown Man Gets Homicide Charge In Spring City Fatal Overdose: DA
The victim, 25, bought 12 bags of what he thought was heroin in Norristown. It turned out to be fentanyl, which is 50 times deadlier.
NORRISTOWN, PA — A Norristown man has been charged with drug delivery resulting in death in connection with the fatal overdose of a Spring City man earlier this year, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office announced on Monday.
Davi "Sheed" Wilson, 25, of Norristown, will face criminal homicide charges for dealing the drugs which proved fatal to Spring City's Tom Treys, also aged 25.
Treys and a friend bought 12 bags of what they believed to be heroin from Wilson, in Norristown, early in the evening of March 29, the DA's Office said.
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Treys went to his home on Riverside Drive where he promptly overdosed and died that night.
An autopsy from the Chester County Coroner's Office found that he had died from acute fentanyl and alcohol intoxication; the office stated the fentanyl would have killed Treys even if there had been no alcohol in his system.
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid described by authorities as up to 50 times deadlier than street-level heroin. It's responsible for many of the overdose deaths that have afflicted southeastern Pennsylvania and the United States over the past several years.
Police executed several undercover controlled purchases of purported heroin from Wilson. Each bag contained fentanyl instead of heroin, the DA said.
“Tom Treys died by someone poisoning him, and that someone was a drug dealer. Anyone dealing drugs in Montgomery County needs to hear this message: if you deal drugs like pills, heroin or fentanyl and we can prove that the drugs you sold caused someone’s death, you will be charged with homicide. We will be coming for you," Steele said in a statement.
Wilson's arrest makes the sixth arrest for drug delivery resulting in death in Montgomery County in 2017.
Wilson was arraigned on Sept. 28 and bail was set at $500,000. He was unable to post bail and was remanded to Montgomery County Correctional Facility.
A preliminary hearing is set for Oct. 18.
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