FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – Authorities in Fort Wayne are now calling a little girl’s death last year a homicide. Allen County’s coroner said on Wednesday that toxicology tests show one-year-old Savannah Brown died from fentanyl toxicity last October.
The coroner has ruled her death a homicide. No one has been arrested for her death as of the release of the coroner’s report.
The new classification bumps Fort Wayne’s homicide numbers for last year up to 49. That ties the city’s record-high.
The Allen County Coroner’s Office released the following:
On Thursday, October 14, 2021 at about 1610 hours, the Allen County Coroner’s Office was notified of the death of Savannah Rose Brown, female white 1 years of age, from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Savannah Rose Brown was found unresponsive at about 1500 hours on October 14, 2021, at her residence in the 8300 block of Newfield Drive, Ft. Wayne, In. Emergency services were dispatched to the scene with Fort Wayne Fire Department, Fort Wayne Police Department and Three Rivers Ambulance responding to the scene. Savannah Rose Brown was transported to a local hospital and admitted into the emergency department. Death was pronounced a short time after arrival.
An autopsy was ordered and completed at the time of death. Testing has been completed and the Cause of Death has been determined to be Fentanyl Toxicity and the Manner of Death is Homicide.
Savannah Rose Brown is the 49th Homicide in Allen County for 2021.
This incident remains under investigation by the Fort Wayne Police Department, the Allen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Allen County Coroner’s Office.
