Four-month-old baby found alive in Colorado apartment where five adults are discovered dead from suspected drug overdose after cops identify mystery ‘substance’ as ‘illicit narcotic’
- Commerce City Police Chief Clint Nichols said that there was no signs of trauma or gas leak
- Three women and two men were found dead, an infant and a sixth woman survived
- Neighbor Ian Scott said he heard partying the night before and the surviving adult seemed ‘high as a kite’
- Nichols said more tests were need before it could be ruled a drug overdose
A suspected drug-fueled party turned lethal on Sunday for five people in a Colorado apartment where a lone infant and an adult woman survived, according to police and neighbors.
The bodies of three women and two men were found inside North Range Crossing apartment complex in Commerce City shortly before 4 p.m., Police Chief Clint Nichols said.
Another woman was found alive and holding a four-month-old child by a neighbor.
There was no indication of violent death or gas leak, but an unknown substance that the chief said ‘could be described as illicit narcotics’ was found in the apartment.
Next-door neighbor Ian Scott told the Denver Post that he heard a woman screaming and he came out to find her holding the infant in a panic.
North Range Crossing in Commerce City, Colorado was the scene of a mass casualty event after three women and two men were found dead in an apartment there. A neighbor heard partying the night before and drug overdoes is suspected
Commerce City Police Chief Clint Nichols said that there was no sign of blunt force trauma or violence and a mysterious substances that could be illicit drugs was found at the scene
The woman appeared to be ‘high as a kite,’ Scott told the paper, and she said that she had given one of the victims a shot that is meant to reverse the effects of a drug overdose.
When Scott peaked inside the apartment he saw three dead bodies.
Scott said that he had heard loud music and thumping the night before until midnight.
Neighbor Ian Scott said he heard screaming and saw a frantic woman holding a baby. Inside the apartment he saw three dead bodies
‘It was a party,’ he told the Post. ‘I saw what I saw.’
The police chief said that further tests would need to be conducted before investigators could say that the substance found inside was illicit drugs.
‘If it is going to be illicit drugs, they were very, very bad,’ Nichols said at a press conference. ‘If it was drugs, no one was able to get to a phone and call 911 for a medical emergency. It happened pretty quickly — speculation on my part.’
Nichols could not say if the child’s parents were among the dead, but he said the baby is in good health.
The surviving woman is also ‘lucid’ and does not seem to have suffered any immediate injuries at the scene.
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