BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A suspicious "unsent message" on Facebook Messenger led investigators to look closer into a 24-year-old woman found on an overdose victim's phone.
The suspicion raised by the unsent message ended up being warranted, according to court documents, as police learned the woman supplied the deceased with tainted drugs which caused his deadly overdose.
Makayla Rose Matlock, 24, of Bloomington is charged with dealing a controlled substance resulting in death, a Level 1 felony, in addition to a Level 5 felony charge of dealing in a narcotic drug.
Court documents detail how Bloomington police officers were called out to a home on S. Nancy Street on July 2 after Coleman Deboy was found dead by his grandmother. An autopsy would later reveal that Deboy died due to "mixed drug toxicity" as a result of injecting a mix of fentanyl and xylazine — an animal tranquilizer.
But Deboy thought he was injecting heroin.
After spotting the deleted Facebook message sent by Matlock to Deboy, police eventually took Matlock into custody and questioned her about Deboy's death. Matlock ended up confessing to selling Deboy the drug mixture, according to police, but told investigators she sold Deboy "cut" instead of his requested heroin in an attempt to stop him from overdosing.
According to Matlock, Deboy had overdosed a month or so previously after purchasing uncut heroin from Matlock.
Matlock was arrested and taken to the Monroe County Jail on Aug. 8.
If convicted of a Level 1 felony, Matlock could serve up to 40 years in prison.