In Colorado, five adults were found dead while a four-month-old baby and an adult were hospitalized.
Authorities said that they found five dead adults at the North Range Crossings apartment complex on Sunday along with substances described as “illicit narcotics” while another adult and a 4-month-old child were alive inside the unit.
Police Chief of Commerce City Clint Nichols said officers responded to a call of an unconscious party at the said apartment in Colorado at 3:45 pm and upon entering the apartment, they found six adults and an infant.
Chief Nichols said: “While they thought that most of them were unconscious, one of the parties was awake and was transported by medicals. The infant was also transported to a hospital. Unfortunately, the other five people inside the apartment were deceased.”
Nichols said of the three women and two males: “There does not appear to be any blunt trauma or any violent incident of any nature.”
The fire department was called out to conduct a hazardous gas test, and that was negative. “There was some substance inside. We don’t know exactly what anything is as of yet,” he said.
Nichols said that the next step is to have the apartment “cleanly swept” and then the police will get a search warrant to begin their investigation.
He said a hazmat team was called to the scene and added, “Again, there were some substances that could be described as illicit narcotics, but again, for me to speculate on that would be improper. I just don’t know.”
The child found inside the apartment was taken to the hospital but appears to be uninjured. He said that he did not know who the victims were but that some of them lived inside the unit.
Chief Nichols explained: “If there was drug use, they were very bad because no one was able to get to a phone and call 911 for a medical emergency. The infant appears to be doing fine.”
He added that it was not clear whether the child was a boy or a girl and it is unclear if the baby’s parents were among the deceased adults found in the apartment.
Nichols added: “I hope the parents were not in there, but I’ve been doing this long enough… it would probably be safe to suggest the parents probably were inside and so for the infant, that’s going to be a long time without parents.”
He said the adult was lucid and talking to the police and the names and ages of all the victims were not immediately available. The investigation is ongoing. Commerce City is about 7 miles and 11 kilometers northeast of Denver.
On the ongoing investigation, McCoy said that it did not seem that the adults were victims of violence, however, he could not provide many details due to the ongoing investigation. Neighbors said that the victims died of fentanyl, however, nothing has been confirmed as of yet.
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