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"They want to know what the Uber driver did as he witnessed a passenger dying," a statement from the family's lawyers said.
"They want to know what the Uber driver did as he witnessed a passenger dying," a statement from the family's lawyers said.
City health leaders say that more than 90 percent of drug-related deaths last year had Fentanyl present.
The coroner in New Orleans says alcohol and fentanyl killed a student from South Carolina who was left at a hospital after watching parades and partying before Mardi Gras. A statement for Ciaya Whetstone's family says they are distraught that she "may have been the victim of a spiked substance." The family's lawyers say they want information from police and Uber. The coroner says the 21-year-old student died about 7 a.m. on Feb. 19 at a hospital in eastern New Orleans. Her roommate told The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate in February that after returning home via Ub...
According to the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office, she apparently died of fentanyl poisoning and ethanol intoxication. Her death has been ruled an accident.