Case DIH-1331
Walik Morrison
A 35-year-old mother asked him for cocaine; he crushed fentanyl pills and gave her the powder instead, and she died in January 2022. The first trial conviction under Rhode Island's 2018 law on drug deliveries that cause death.
- Court
- State, Providence County
- State
- Rhode Island
- Year of death
- 2022
- Year sentenced
- 2025
- Drugs
- Fentanyl (given as cocaine)
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- Not reported
- Conviction
- Delivery of a controlled substance resulting in death; possession with intent to deliver cocaine; possession with intent to deliver fentanyl
- Plea or trial
- Trial
- Sentence
- 50 years, 40 to serve
- Found through
- State prosecutor and news search, October 2026
This case was brought under Rhode Island law. For what that law says, see Rhode Island in the state law guide.
Sources
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