'It is kinda like my fault': Boyfriend hesitated to call 911 after finding mom of 3 face down on floor in their home, police say

A antheral successful bluish Indiana is accused of causing the decease of his girlfriend by giving her a fatal dose of fentanyl.

Jeremy Duvall, 45, has been charged with dealing a controlled substance resulting successful death, tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime show. While the complaint was filed this week, the incidental is said to person occurred implicit the summer.

It was June 27, and Duvall and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Keana Swafford, were astatine a location successful Fort Wayne, Indiana. At 1 point, the suspect said helium saw Swafford lasting by a furniture smoking fentanyl, but past helium fell asleep. When helium woke up, helium recovered her look down connected the floor, per tribunal documents reviewed by section ABC and NBC affiliate WPTA.

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Duvall, who authorities judge was a cause trader astatine the time, struggled with whether to telephone 911, but helium ended up calling for help. However, erstwhile officers arrived astatine the home, helium wasn't there. First responders tended to Swafford, but she was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Law enforcement officers obtained a warrant for the suspect's phone, and connected it, they recovered messages that they believed illustrated his authorities of caput astir his girlfriend's death.

"Trust maine determination hasn't been a infinitesimal that past wherever I haven't thought astir what could person been done differently," 1 connection read, per the Fort Wayne-based outlet. "I would springiness my beingness for hers and she knows that God knows that and God and [Swafford] knows what happened that's each that matters I don't attraction what anyone has to accidental oregon feels astir it."

In different message, Duvall admitted to giving his woman the fentanyl, according to the tribunal documents.

Duvall was arrested a period aboriginal for felony narcotics possession, and connected the mode to the jail, helium allegedly made an incriminating statement: "It is kinda similar my fault." He has reportedly remained successful jailhouse since.

Court records amusement that the suspect had an archetypal proceeding for his dealing complaint connected Friday. He volition look successful tribunal again connected Nov. 26.

Swafford, who had 3 children, is remembered for being "bright, bold, and fierce successful her emotion for those astir her," according to her obituary, which besides mentions Duvall.