UPDATE: Missoula PD clarifies no 2nd drug overdose death in Sept. 19 incident

UPDATE: 12:05 p.m. - September 25, 2024

The Missoula Police Department reports that upon further investigation, there was not a second fatal drug overdose related to an incident that happened on September 19.

One of the three people who were found unresponsive in a vehicle in the Turner Street area has died.

MPD told MTN on Wednesday that a second person had died as a result of the incident. That information has been clarified.

ORIGINAL REPORT: September 24, 2024

A second person has died of a drug overdose after being found unresponsive last week inside a vehicle in Missoula.

Missoula Police Department spokeswoman Whitney Bennett tells MTN that the drug involved in the death was fentanyl.

Officers were called to perform a welfare check in the Turner Street area on Thursday, September 19 and found three people unresponsive in a car.

Narcan and AED were used and the three people were taken to a Missoula hospital. Two of the three people have now died.

MPD sent out a public awareness message following several overdoses that happened last week.

Bennett told MTN that a more potent type of fentanyl is being seen in Missoula.