An Abilene man has been charged with murder in connection with the 2023 overdose death of a minor, police said in a media release Friday.
The Abilene Narcotics Department filed a murder charge against 22-year-old Tristan Blake McCrary, 22, for his alleged involvement in a fentanyl-related overdose death Dec. 21, 2023, according to police and online jail records.
McCrary was being held Friday in Taylor County Jail on a $1 million bond, jail records showed. He was booked into jail March 31.
McCrary was charged with murder in connection with the death of an Abilene minor found deceased from a drug overdose in his home in December 2023, the police department said in the media release.
Family discovered the minor dead in his bedroom in a south Abilene home, police said.
McCrary was already being held in jail on bonds of $26,295 for unrelated misdemeanor charges of DWI in connection with an Oct. 25, 2024, incident and failure to ID in connection with an Oct. 17, 2025, incident, according to police and jail records.
The murder charge was added to his previous charges at the Taylor County Jail, police said.
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: Man charged with murder in Abilene fentanyl death
Reporting by Lauren Dossey, Abilene Reporter-News / Abilene Reporter-News
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