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By SUSAN SHARP
CAMPBELL COUNTY, TN. (WLAF)- Faith Evans autopsy is clear- she died from a stroke brought on by Methamphetamine toxicity.
Evans was an inmate at the Campbell County Jail when she died in April. She had been behind bars for six days when corrections staff found her “unresponsive on her bed” in a maximum security cell. She was alone in the cell, according to the autopsy report.
The 26-year-old Evans was an intravenous Heroin addict, the report said. In fact, shortly before her arrest, she used Heroin.
Her mother, Phyllis Evans, is adamant that the drugs that killed her daughter didn’t belong to Faith Evans.
If her daughter had smuggled drugs into the jail, she would have already taken them. Faith’s addiction wouldn’t have allowed her to hang on to the drugs for six days, her mother said.
Faith’s blood results yielded a positive result for Hydroxyzine, Fentanyl, Norfentanyl, Amphetamine and Methamphetamine. That concoction induced the stroke that killed her.
She was “last known alive on April 28,” records said. At 10:07pm, a nurse at the jail gave her the prescribed medications of Hydroxyzine, Tylenol and Zofran.
Roughly nine hours later, on the morning of April 29, a corrections officers saw Evans “tossing” in her bed, according to the autopsy report. However, this particular piece of information “could not be confirmed,” the report said.
Forty minutes later, during scheduled rounds, corrections staff found Evans “unresponsive on her bed.”
It’s a “tragic situation,’ said Campbell County Sheriff Wayne Barton. He has promised to “chase everything and follow everything until there is nothing else to follow” to answer questions about the inmate’s death. If the evidence yields enough for charges they will be filed, Barton said. He did also say that allegations of this nature are “so hard to prove.”
In the days after the in-custody death the sheriff’s department released a statement that drugs weren’t a factor in Faith’s dying.
“Based on the information we received (at that time) from the TBI it was a medical,” Barton said of her believed cause of death.
Her mother has been pushing Barton to continue the investigation. She is firm in her belief that the drugs that killed Faith came from inside the jail.
Narcotics in the county jail are not a new problem. In November 2023, WLAF published a story revealing there had been 27 overdoses in the county facility for the year. CLICK HERE to read the story. Three days after the story was published the number rose to 28.
“We are trying to implement anything possible to keep contraband out,” Barton said. In recent months, the CCSO has charged 11 people with bringing contraband into the jail, he said.
It has been three months since Faith died.
The majority of the investigation has wrapped but is still not complete, according to Eighth Judicial District Attorney General Jared Effler.
(WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED 7/29/2024-6AM)
These people need to be in a rehab/medical facility where they can be treated and monitored. Any death is a tragedy but 23 is unacceptable. Were there this many under the previous administration? I do not know this sheriff and I hope he gets to the bottom of this. Yes, kids get on drugs. They are worth saving! These are people who, I’m sure, didn’t want this plan for their life. Prayers for this mother. We lost my niece and a nephew so I can’t imagine her pain. Drug addiction can affect any family.