Three dead in apparent overdose case in New Rochelle

Three men died and a fourth was in critical condition after apparently overdosing Saturday afternoon in New Rochelle, police said.

The man who survived called police just before 2:45 p.m. to report that the others were unresponsive and they all may have overdosed. He was barely coherent, police said, and did not know where they were, but dispatchers were able to track his cell phone to an apartment building at 50 Fountain Place.

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There police found the four men in a storage room at the back of the building. Three men were pronounced dead at the scene and the caller was taken to the hospital where he was listed in critical condition.

Capt. J. Collins Coyne said Saturday night that it was suspected the men overdosed on fentanyl but that had not yet been confirmed.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call New Rochelle police at 914-654-2300.

Law enforcement throughout the country have increasingly raised concerns about the dangers of illicit drugs being laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50 times as potent as heroin according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Three Yonkers men died on one day in October from suspected fentanyl overdoses.

On March 15, five women overdosed on fentanyl-laced drugs in the parking garage of a shopping mall in Hackensack, New Jersey, but were revived by passersby who performed CPR and emergency medical responders who administered Narcan. One of the women later died. It was determined she had taken cocaine that was laced with fentanyl, authorities said

This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Three men die from suspected fentanyl overdose in New Rochelle