Posted on 09/20/2022 6:16:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
Wyoming-raised country singer and songwriter Luke Bell died of an accidental fentanyl poisoning, according to a Tucson, Arizona, forensic pathologist.
Bell, 32, died last month after going missing in the Tucson area. He went missing Aug. 20 and his body was found six days later.
Bell was found in Tucson by passersby, unresponsive in a shaded parking structure, according to an autopsy report from the Pima County Medical Examiner’s office.
There were attempts to resuscitate him, the report says, citing markings on Bell’s body from defibrillators, endotracheal tubes and chest compressions.
Other than those markings, Bell showed no signs of internal or external injury.
Bell’s toxicology measured a blood-alcohol concentration of .076, according to the autopsy report. His blood contained 21 nanograms of fentanyl per milliliter.
Investigation Open
Sgt. Richard Gradillas, of the Tucson Police Department, told Cowboy State Daily on Monday that the investigation into Bell’s death – and the six days before it – is still open.
Gradillas said police are trying to discover where he was during his six days missing. He said he was uncertain how long Bell was deceased before he was found, but said officers deployed the life-saving measures observed in bodily markings by the medical examiner.
Bell was found by himself.
Gradillas said he wasn’t sure how much fentanyl Bell would have had to consume to achieve his toxicity level, but it doesn’t take much to seriously harm or kill someone.
“With fentanyl, something as small as a pen tip can kill you,” he said. “It is a deadly drug.”
Wyoming Voice
Bell’s sudden death came as a surprise to country music fans across the nation, but especially in Wyoming, where he’s known by many.
After the news of his death broke, Bell was remembered as a charismatic young man who “lit up a room” whenever he entered.
Bell began playing bars in college, according to fellow Cody musician Kalyn Beasley, who grew up just down the street from Bell.
“Probably like a lot of us musicians, Luke wasn’t super interested in going to class,” Beasley previously told Cowboy State Daily. “So, he kind of took up gigging and playing in bars.”
Beasley said Bell also took up train-hopping while in Laramie, riding the rails to the next town, the next gig, the next adventure.
“There’s people that do that, you know,” Beasley said. “They ride trains and they write songs about it and sing old folk songs and live in an off-the-grid sort of way. And Luke was doing that.”
Bell spent the early part of his music career in Austin, Texas, before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, in the early 2010s.
“I didn’t know that he was musically gifted until he came back from living in Austin,” said high school friend Mike Vanata. “And he just came back with a plethora of songs that spoke to his storytelling. And I was just blown away.”
Bell released his first Nashville album “Don’t Mind If I Do” in 2014. In 2016, he was signed to the Thirty Tigers label, releasing his second self-titled album “Luke Bell.” He retreated from the music scene for a few years before his latest release, “Jealous Guy,” came out in 2021.
citing markings on Bell’s body from defibrillators, endotracheal tube
An ET tube ain't a marking!! Just saying.......
All of a sudden old-fashioned heroin seems like a good idea. I’m NOT recommending it. And it might be hard to find the real stuff.
BTW - When is the government going to come out with Narcan dispensers that work like those insulin pumps that connect to continuous glucose monitors?
Heard that they will have free Narcan DISPENSERS in select cities.................
It is less important to the U.S. government that Americans are dying of this by the thousands from this than it is that they flood the country with illegal aliens in their desire to destroy the existing country and replace it with their own fascist “utopia”.
The United States government is the most evil on Earth - the evil it does is aimed at its own people…and it’s working overtime in its attempt to become the most evil in human history.
That has been going on for months (if not years) in some places.
My post about the Narcan dispenser is kind of like a Babylon Bee joke. Just think of HOW MANY lives could be saved if only this science fiction piece of equipment was attached to everyone.
We could have our whole economy based on prevention of Fentanyl overdoses. /s
Maybe there ought to be a law that says you must give a free Narcan dispenser with each sale of illegal drugs!.............🤦♂️😜
I’d go for two per ...
It’s a poorly written edited piece.
At first I thought “someone” had tended to him and then dumped his body. Then upon reflection, that’s just quoting the Medical Examiner’s report detailing the efforts that the EMTs and doctors had made.
No sweat.
Cannabis, also known as hemp or marijuana, evolved about 28 million years ago on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, according to a pollen study published in May. A close relative of the common hop found in beer, the plant still grows wild across Central Asia. More than 4000 years ago, Chinese farmers began to grow it for oil and for fiber to make rope, clothing, and paper.
.76 alcohol sounds like suicide
.076 that is. Drinking with Fet does sound like suicide
https://www.science.org/content/article/oldest-evidence-marijuana-use-discovered-2500-year-old-cemetery-peaks-western-china
““Bell was found by himself.” I thought he was deceased. Oh, today’s journalists.”
Geez. That form has been used forever.
I’m rating her “not guilty”
Was he lost?
Fentanyl doesn’t accidentally fall into your blood stream.
You have to ingest it. It is ingested, usually, because someone is taking it, thinking it is heroin or cocaine.
That is not an accident. That is stupidity.
That’s crap.
I know plenty of artists who manage to get through life without cutting off their ears.
LOL
It amazes me that people would mess with a highly potent drug that has such a narrow margin of error regarding a fatal overdose.
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