Fullerton police stated they found the our bodies of 4 folks inside a residence after a pal reported that they had overdosed and weren’t respiration.
Authorities stated they had been referred to as to an condo within the 100 block of Wilshire Avenue at 11:01 a.m. on Tuesday and the our bodies had been found.
“There isn’t a quick menace to the general public,” the police stated in a press release.
Two girls console one another after studying of the deaths of 4 softball teammates.
(KTLA-TV Channel 5)
Detectives have launched a dying investigation. Authorities haven’t confirmed the identities of the deceased, however a pal of the group instructed KTLA-TV Channel 5 that they had been all a part of the identical softball staff.
Police didn’t affirm the deaths had been a results of a drug overdose and couldn’t instantly be reached for added touch upon Wednesday.
However drug use has turn into a rising concern within the county in recent times.
In Orange County, the speed of dying resulting from opioid overdose almost tripled from 2017 to 2021, from 7.9 deaths per 100,000 to 23.2. The biggest enhance occurred through the first yr of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the overdose fee rising 88% between 2019 and 2020, in accordance with the Orange County Well being Care Company.
