GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — A woman is in jail after being accused of killing her one-year-old boy, according to sources.
Ebone Johnson was taken into custody by the Gaston County Police Department on Wednesday and was charged with second-degree murder.
According to court documents, Johnson exposed her child to carfentanil on his first birthday in July.
The Drug Enforcement Administration describes the drug as a synthetic opioid.
The one-year-old, Nasir Harris, somehow came in contact with the drug at his mother’s home on Bumblebee Court in Kings Mountain.
His mother tried to revive him but couldn’t, according to search warrants. The boy’s body temperature on his death date, was 88 degrees, according to search warrants.
It took months for the medical examiner to determine the boy died from carfentanil. Investigators seized drugs from Johnson’s home, according to the search warrant.
“(Carfentanil was initially meant as a tranquilizer for large animals and when I say large, think elephant,” said Brandi Burchett, with Pheonix Counseling, which helps people with substance addiction.
She said lately it is replacing fentanyl as a stronger street drug, and a child should never have it.
“It is 100 times more potent than fentanyl, and 10,000 times more potent than morphine,” Burchett said.
She said a small dose is deadly.
“Something as small as a grain of salt on a fingertip can be lethal and that’s for an adult,” Burchett said.
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