Mother Charged With Murder After Toddler Dies From Fentanyl Poisoning In DC: Feds

A District woman has been arrested and charged with murdering her 3-year-old daughter who ingested a fentanyl and died, federal authorities announced.

Fentanyl in pill and powdered form.
Photo Credit: *DEA.gov*

Zak Failla

02/20/2024 1:47 p.m.

Sasha McCoy, 27, was arrested late last week and charged in DC Superior Court, where she pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and first-degree cruelty to children for allegedly allowing her child to ingest a lethal dose of fentanyl.

It is alleged that in October 2022, the toddler got into the fentanyl, and during her court appearance on Friday, a judge found probable cause that McCoy committed the murder and held her without bond pending her preliminary hearing on Friday, March 8, prosecutors say.

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