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Multiple doses of “Narcan” were administered at the scene where McKinley was found in the 300 block of Sheridan Avenue, but the 26-year-old died shortly after arriving at the hospital, according to the report.
Police said two females discovered McKinley lying naked and unconscious in a pile of trash in the alleyway and called 9-1-1.
The cause and manner of his death is pending results from toxicology tests, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.
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Police said there were no outward signs of trauma on McKinley’s body, but it’s unclear how and why he was found in the trash without clothes on.
A woman claiming to be McKinley’s wife and McKinley’s brother told police the following day that they believe Eric was killed and dumped in the alley by people who didn’t have permission to drive a U-Haul that McKinley’s wife had rented, according to a police report.
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Police said the U-Haul was rented out of Greene County and it had never been reported as stolen, as McKinley’s family claimed.
Earlier this month, police responded to an overdose call at McKinley’s address on Drury Avenue. Officers found McKinley lying on the floor in a bathroom; he was trembling and unconscious from an apparent overdose, according to the police report.
McKinley was transported that day, Feb. 7, to Miami Valley Hospital where he received further treatment.
In addition, police issued a summons to court to McKinley for drug paraphernalia and a nuisance abatement notice because of felony drug use on the property, according to the report.
Numbers continue to rise
The bodies keep piling up in the coroner’s office, which took in at least 145 suspected overdoses in January from Montgomery and surrounding counties.
“There’s no end in sight,” said Dr. Kent Harshbarger, coroner. In the 15 minutes Harshbarger spent Tuesday alerting reporters to another steep rise in overdose deaths – 54 in Montgomery County so far in January – three more bodies rolled into the morgue.
“Our case totals have completely gone out of control for us as far as our ability to handle this amount of workload,” he said. “It’s really been from overdose deaths.”