A suspect was charged with murder following the overdose death of a veteran in Shawnee.
On Monday Tynan Walton, 23, was charged with first-degree murder by distribution of a controlled dangerous substance.
On December 7, 2018, first responders were dispatched to a home in the 1200 block of Whittaker Street in Shawnee.
Joshua Lytle, 33, was found unresponsive in the bathroom of the home after overdosing on heroin.
Lytle was revived and taken to an Oklahoma City hospital where he later died on December 14, 2018.
According to the medical examiner’s report, Lytle’s probable cause of death was an anoxic brain injury, due to “a probable acute opioid (heroin) toxicity.”
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