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Charlotte mother charged with murder after baby’s fentanyl overdose

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CHARLOTTE — A woman in Charlotte is facing a murder charge after police say her 9-month-old daughter died from a fentanyl overdose this summer.

According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Departmnet, officers got a call on July 7 for an unresponsive infant at an apartment complex on Orchard Trace Lane. The girl was taken to the hospital, but she was pronounced deceased.

Channel 9 obtained an affidavit that says the baby’s mother, Hallie Ingram, told detectives that she gave the girl a bottle and put her in a pack and play around 9 a.m. and the girl was acting normal. Ingram said she took a nap for about an hour, and when she woke up, she found the girl unresponsive.

Man charged with death by distribution in 2024 case

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A Florida man faces a felony death by distribution charge after allegedly providing drugs that led to a Stantonsburg man’s death in May 2024, Wilson police announced.

Jamel Lamar Neal, 41, of Orlando was charged in the death of Jerrian Maushan Poole, 22, of Stantonsburg, according to a statement from Sgt, Eric McInerny, public information officer with the Wilson Police Department.

McInerny said that at 5:19 p.m. on May 19, 2024, officers responded to a residence on Lear Court after a report of an overdose.

“Upon arrival, officers located two individuals, including Poole, who were unconscious and not breathing,” McInerny said. He said Wilson County EMS was on the scene and pronounced Poole deceased.

According to the warrant, the substance Neal is accused of distributing is fentanyl.

McInerny said that the second individual was taken to Wilson Medical Center, where they were later released.

“Through the course of the investigation, it was determined that Poole’s death was the result of multiple drug intoxication,” McInerny said. “Investigators identified Neal as the individual who provided the narcotics to Poole. Based on the findings, a warrant was obtained for Neal on one count of felony death by distribution.”

McInerny said that on Aug. 18, Neal was located in Seminole County, Florida.

Neal was taken into custody and subsequently extradited to Wilson.

Neal was placed in the Wilson County Detention Center with a $75,000 secured bond. He remained incarcerated as of Thursday morning.

Police ask anyone with information about the case to call the Wilson Police Department at 252-399-2323 or Crime Stoppers at 252-243-2255.

Two men charged in separate death by distribution cases: High Point Police

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HIGH POINT, N.C. — Two men have been arrested and charged by High Point police in separate death by distribution cases recently, HPPD said.

Tyler S. Hazelwood, 34, was arrested for the 2024 drug overdose that killed a 29-year-old man, according to police. 

Hazelwood was charged with felony death by distribution and felony possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver a schedule II controlled substance.

He is being held on a $500,000 bond.

In a separate case, police arrested Abdullah Kindle, 38, for another overdose that killed a 29-year-old man, police said.

Police said officers delivered naloxone to the victim and tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead on the scene.

Kindle was charged with felony death by distribution and felony possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver a schedule II controlled substance.

He is being held on a $2 million bond.

2 charged in connection with fatal overdoses in High Point, police say

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HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Two men have been arrested and charged in two separate death by distribution cases, according to the High Point Police Department.

On Thursday, Tyler Shane Hazelwood, 34, of Rural Hall, was arrested in connection with the January 2024 fatal drug overdose of a 29-year-old man found dead inside a home on Middlewood Court.

Hazelwood was charged with felony death by distribution and possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver schedule II controlled substance. His bond was set at $500,000.

In June, Abdullah Kindle, 38, of High Point, was arrested in connection with a separate death by distribution case regarding the fatal overdose of a 29-year-old man at a home on East Green Drive. Kindle was arrested on July 28.

Kindle remains in the Guilford County Jail with a $2 million bond.

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