The Abilene Police Narcotics Unit arrested a 19-year-old in connection with a fentanyl-related death, according to a media release from the Abilene Police Department on Tuesday.
Abilene resident Aaron Cordell McVea has been charged with murder for his alleged part in the overdose death of a 33-year-old Abilene woman, police said.
McVea was being held Tuesday evening in the Taylor County Jail on a $1 million bond in connection with a May 10, 2025, incident, according to online jail records.
The woman was found deceased from an apparent drug overdose in May 2025 in her bathroom at a home in the 2100 block of North 18th Street, police said in a media release. Family discovered her dead.
Anyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Murder is a first degree felony punishable by 5 to 99 years or life in prison.
This article originally appeared on Abilene Reporter-News: Abilene teen charged with murder in fentanyl related overdose
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