Complaint: Beloit Teen Traded Gift Card For Fatal Drug Dose
Four People Charged In Connection With Overdose Death
Updated: 11:08 am CST February 12, 2009
BELOIT, Wis. -- An Illinois teen has told investigators he traded a fatal dose of heroin to a Beloit teen for a Starbucks gift card.Christopher Dorris, 19, of Roscoe, Ill., is one of four people charged with delivering or manufacturing a controlled substance in the Nov. 27 overdose death of 18-year-old Ryan Kennington.A criminal complaint said Dorris, Johnathon Handy, 19, of Rockton, Ill., and Michael Maginnis, 18, of Beloit, bought heroin in Rockford, Ill., on Nov. 26. They returned to Maginnis' and Kennington's home, where Kennington and Emily Hill, 19, of Winnebago, Ill., used the drug.The complaint said Dorris injected Kennington that night with a final dose that he supplied in exchange for the gift card. Maginnis found Kennington dead the next day.
Previous Stories:
- January 23, 2009: Beloit Police Say Teens Supplied Heroin In Overdose Death
- January 22, 2009: Police Make Arrests In Connection With Beloit Death
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