UpdatedWed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:17 pm PT
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Police responded to the school after learning that neither janitor returned home from their shift on Tuesday. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
DUBLIN, CA — The Coroner's Bureau of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office has identified the janitor found dead Wednesday morning at Fallon Middle School in Dublin.
The body of James Covington, 32, of Pittsburg was discovered around 7 a.m. after Dublin police received word that he and another janitor — his fiancee, as KRON reported — did not return home after their shift at the school at 3601 Kohnen Way Tuesday.
Fentanyl was found at the scene. Police are awaiting toxicology results to determine whether the drug played a role in his death, said Dublin Police Department Capt. Nate Schmidt in an email. Covington's cause of death is pending, according to the coroner's bureau.