"It was on the night of Nov. 24 that someone flagged down a police officer on Maple Grove Avenue to help with a baby who was not breathing, a circuit court search warrant states. An officer began CPR and an ambulance rushed the baby to Sovah Health-Danville where she was pronounced dead.
Police reported there were no obvious signs of trauma on the infant, though a death investigation was opened. An autopsy by the Western District Office of the Chief Medical Examiner lists the infant’s cause of death as “an acute heroin and cocaine intoxication in a setting of co- sleeping.”...
On Monday, a Danville Circuit Court grand jury indicted the parents — Eugene D. Chandler Jr., 27, and Shaleigh M. Brumfield, 26 — on counts of felony homicide and abuse and neglect of a child. Police arrested the couple Tuesday."
Parents charged in death of 2-month-old in Danville; cocaine and heroin found in infant's system caused her death, police report
Police reported there were no obvious signs of trauma on the infant, though a death investigation was opened. An autopsy by the Western District Office of the Chief Medical Examiner lists the infant’s cause of death as “an acute heroin and cocaine intoxication in a setting of co- sleeping.”...
On Monday, a Danville Circuit Court grand jury indicted the parents — Eugene D. Chandler Jr., 27, and Shaleigh M. Brumfield, 26 — on counts of felony homicide and abuse and neglect of a child. Police arrested the couple Tuesday."
Parents charged in death of 2-month-old in Danville; cocaine and heroin found in infant's system caused her death, police report
