17 Dec 7 New Lenox Heroin Deaths In 2018
It appears Will County is on pace to have less heroin overdose deaths in 2018 than the county had last year. As of Dec. 11, Will County had 103 accidental overdose deaths so far. Of those, a total of 70 cases involved a heroin or fentanyl overdose.
The coroner’s office also noted that one of those deaths, which Patch included in the totals above, involved a heroin user who was killed in a traffic fatality.
For comparison, Will County had 117 accidental overdose deaths in 2017 and 85 of those were heroin deaths.
Anyway, here’s a community by community tally of the heroin deaths that have occurred here in Will County so far this year, based on the data kept by O’Neil office:
Wilmington (two)
Nov. 26, white female, age 53
April 4: white female, age 32
Steger (two)
Nov. 23, white female, age 26
Aug. 21: black male, age 40
Bolingbrook (four)
Aug. 20: black male, age 31
July 6: white male, age 25
May 7: white male, age 31
March 3: white male, age 42
Joliet (twenty-eight)
Nov. 16: white male, age 52
Nov. 11: black male, age 35
Oct. 22: white male, age 52
Sept. 23: white female, age 23
Sept. 15: white male age 23
Sept. 1: black male, age 63
Aug. 22: white female, age 50
Aug. 12: white female, age 38
Aug. 11: white female, age 57
July 21: white male, age 21
July 18: white male, age 25
July 13: white female, age 29
July 3: white male, age 21
July 1: white male, age 37, (Joliet Township)
June 26: white male, age 48
June 13: white male, age 26
April 21: white male, age 34
April 21: black female, age 57
March 27: black male, age 46
March 26: white female, age 33
March 26: white female, age 28 (Joliet Township)
March 21: white male, age 23
March 18: white female, age 31
March 16: white male, age 36
March 11: white male, age 23
Feb. 16: white female, age 46
Feb. 12: white male, age 34
Jan. 30: white male, age 46
Channahon (one)
June 22: white male, age 26
New Lenox (seven)
July 30: white female, age 47
July 13: white male, age 21
May 19: white male, age 19
March 7: white male, age 36
Feb. 2: white male, age 20
Jan. 24: white male, age 32
Jan. 6: white male, age 34
Frankfort (one)
Jan. 8: white male, age 35
Tinley Park (one)
Feb. 17: white male, age 19
Lockport area (four)
July 17: white male, age 27
May 3: white male, age 36
April 5: white male, age 52
Feb. 26: white male, age 36
Shorewood (three)
July 20: white male, age 37
July 1: white male, age 31
May 1: white female, age 30
Braidwood (three)
Nov. 3: white female, age 22, also involved drowning
Oct. 1: white female, age 62
May 30: white female, age 26
Romeoville (four)
Oct. 14: white male, age 31
July 9: white male, age 28
May 10: black male, age 46
March 16: white male, age 26
Plainfield Township (one)
April 29: white male, age 27
Crest Hill (two)
Aug. 25: white male, age 22
March 21: white male, age 62
Homer Glen (three)
April 29: white male, age 28
March 12: white female, age 28
Jan. 2: white female, age 30
Mokena (two)
April 16: white male, age 40
Jan. 31: white female, age 32
Manhattan (one)
Jan. 14: white female, age 37
Will Township, Will County Sheriff’s Office investigation:
July 14: white male, age 40, motor vehicle collision, heroin and Fentanyl intoxication
Image via Will County Sheriff’s Office September 2018 press release regarding a heroin bust near I-55 and I-355.
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