A 25-year-old man died Sunday of a suspected heroin overdose while outside a Bloomington grocery store.
An investigation into the man’s death is still ongoing and an autopsy was scheduled for Monday morning in Terre Haute, Indiana, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Joe Crider said.
The deceased man’s friend, also a 25-year-old man, told police he had stopped at a grocery store Sunday evening on Bloomington’s east side while his friend stayed outside.
He said he believes his friend may have used heroin while waiting outside the grocery store, Crider said.
When the man returned from the grocery store, he found his friend unresponsive and drove him to Monroe Hospital, where the man died.
Officers arrived to the hospital shortly after 7:05 p.m. and recovered a needle from the deceased man’s friend.
It is still unclear if the man who died was a Bloomington native, Crider said.
Samantha Schmidt
