70 Will County Heroin Deaths In 2018

JOLIET, IL – 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, the Will County Coroner’s Office had tabulated 103 accidental overdose deaths. Of those, 70 cases involved a heroin or fentanyl overdose.

The statistics indicate Joliet has had 28 heroin deaths so far in 2018. For comparison, Will County had 117 accidental overdose deaths in 2017 and 85 of those were heroin deaths.

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.

Anyway, here’s a community by community tally of the heroin deaths in Will County so far this year, based on the data kept by Coroner Patrick K. O’Neil’s 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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