Fullerton police mentioned they found the our bodies of 4 individuals inside a residence after a good friend reported that they had overdosed and weren’t respiration.
Authorities mentioned they had been known as to an house within the 100 block of Wilshire Avenue at 11:01 a.m. on Tuesday and the our bodies had been found.
“There isn’t any quick menace to the general public,” the police mentioned in a press release.
Two ladies console one another after studying of the deaths of 4 softball teammates.
(KTLA-TV Channel 5)
Detectives have launched a demise investigation. Authorities haven’t confirmed the identities of the deceased, however a good friend of the group informed KTLA-TV Channel 5 that they had been all a part of the identical softball staff.
Police didn’t affirm the deaths had been a results of a drug overdose and couldn’t instantly be reached for extra touch upon Wednesday.
However drug use has change into a rising concern within the county in recent times.
In Orange County, the speed of demise on account of opioid overdose almost tripled from 2017 to 2021, from 7.9 deaths per 100,000 to 23.2. The biggest improve occurred through the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the overdose price rising 88% between 2019 and 2020, in keeping with the Orange County Well being Care Company.
