Updated -- Saturday, 7:15 a.m.: The Detroit News reports that the Oakland County Sheriff's Office has determined that the three heroin overdoses were not related. The department arrived at the conclusion following lab results.
Friday article:
Heroin continues to wreak havoc in the Detroit area.
Dave Phillips of the Oakland Press reports that three people died in Pontiac of suspected heroin overdoses on Wednesday in a span of about seven hours.
In one instance, the paper reports, Oakland County Sheriff's deputies had to force their way into one home, where they found a dead woman and an infant upstairs. The infant was turned over to a family member.
The paper reports that authorities are trying to determine if there's any connection between the three deaths.
One victim, a 31-year-old Waterford Township man, was found dead in a bedroom in the 300 block of Ferry Street on Pontiac's southeast side.
The second death involved a 24-year-old Waterford man who was found unresponsive in the parking lot of McDonald’s at Woodward and South Boulevard, the paper reported. A third death involved a 32-year-old woman who was slumped over in her sink in the 60 block of Forrest. A baby was in the house.
