Bloomington Police Department officers responded to a call from an apartment on West Country Road about a woman who was unconscious and unresponsive after overdosing on heroin at about 2 a.m. Wednesday. The woman, 31, was rushed to the hospital but later died.
BPD Capt. Steve Kellams said when police arrived one of the two people who were with the woman was attempting CPR. Police also attempted to revive the woman. Medical personnel from IU Health arrived and used Narcan to revive her but were unsuccessful.
She was then transported to the emergency room where police stayed with her until she was pronounced dead at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday.
Stephen Sage, 25 and one of the two people there, was charged with dealing a level 5 narcotic after police investigated and determined he sold the heroin to the woman and had lied to police about the situation, Kellams said.
A search of the area was conducted, but detectives are still filing the information and the report is incomplete as of Wednesday.
Police are not revealing the woman’s name at this time because her family has yet to be notified. However, she is a Monroe County local.
Dominick Jean
