Two Scott County men are facing felony drug charges following the overdose death of a 21-year-old Scottsburg woman.
Tyson J. Eversole, 23, of Austin has been charged in Scott Circuit Court with dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death, two counts of dealing in a narcotic drug, possession of narcotic drug, possession of a legend drug, possession of a syringe and possession of drug paraphernalia.
An accomplice, Michael D. Campbell, 56, of Scottsburg has been charged with possession of a narcotic drug and driving under the influence.
The deceased woman was identified as Hannah Grace Strong, 21, of Scottsburg.
Austin Police and Scott County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to an apartment in the 100 block of Morning Drive around 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, on the report of a drug overdose.
When Austin officer Josh Vires arrived he found Strong unresponsive lying on the floor next to the bed with Eversole lying on top on her. After getting Eversole off the woman police observed that he continued to fall down, his balance poor, and had slurred speech.
Vires administered two doses of Narcon in an attempt to revive the unconscious woman. As Scott County EMS arrived they took over live saving measures, Vires reported in the probable cause affidavit.
Eversole advised the officer that he and Strong took fentanyl shortly before 4 p.m. Eversole said that Michael Campbell took the remaining fentanyl pills and left in a red car before police arrived.
It was about this time that Vires and Deputy Kasey Reschar were dispatched to the parking lot of Huck’s gas station at the corner of US 31 & SR 256 in Austin when a red vehicle struck a sign and the driver was reportedly slumped over in the seat and may be overdosing.
The driver, Michael Campbell acknowledged that he had earlier left the apartment on Morning Drive.
Campbell, Eversole and Strong were transported to Norton’s Scott Hospital for treatment.
Police learned that Strong had died.
Interviewing Campbell and Eversole, Renschar said the pair and another man, drove to Louisville and purchased what they believed to be fentanyl and heroin. Eversole told police when they returned to the Morning Drive residence, they crushed what they had purchased, and he had taken “three lines” Hannah had taken “two lines” and Michael had taken “three lines.” Deputy Reschar advised that Tyson stated Michael made Tyson a “line” and himself a “line” and advised when he walked out of the room and came back Hannah had done a “line” and was unconscious.
It was at that point that Eversole began screaming to call 911. Campbell said he ran out to neighbors to get Narcan but when he got outside he got nervous, got into his vehicle, and drove away from the property and crashed at Huck’s.
At the Morning Drive residence police found 8.14 grams of suspected fentanyl, two partial straws containing a white powdery substance, scales containing a white powdery substance, syringes, and 10 oval white pills later identified at Gabapentin, an anticonvulsant often used to treat epilepsy.
Interviewed at the jail, Eversole told police that he had left the drugs in the room and that Strong must have gotten into it and done too much because “that’s how she was,” according to the court document.
Also interviewed at the jail, Campbell said that he did supply the drugs that killed Strong and he is not involved in her death, according to the court document.
Campbell and Eversole were booked into Scott County Jail late Thursday night, Jan. 23.
On Jan. 28, Scott Circuit Court Judge Jason Mount set Campbell’s bond at $50,000 full cash and Eversole’s bond was set at $250,000 full cash.