UPDATE: 12:05 p.m. - September 25, 2024
The Missoula Police Department reports that upon further investigation, there was not a second fatal drug overdose related to an incident that happened on September 19.
One of the three people who were found unresponsive in a vehicle in the Turner Street area has died.
MPD told MTN on Wednesday that a second person had died as a result of the incident. That information has been clarified.
ORIGINAL REPORT: September 24, 2024
A second person has died of a drug overdose after being found unresponsive last week inside a vehicle in Missoula.
Missoula Police Department spokeswoman Whitney Bennett tells MTN that the drug involved in the death was fentanyl.
Officers were called to perform a welfare check in the Turner Street area on Thursday, September 19 and found three people unresponsive in a car.
Narcan and AED were used and the three people were taken to a Missoula hospital. Two of the three people have now died.
MPD sent out a public awareness message following several overdoses that happened last week.
Bennett told MTN that a more potent type of fentanyl is being seen in Missoula.
