ST. GEORGE, Staten Island (PIX11) – The death of a baby on Staten Island earlier this year has been ruled a homicide, police said Wednesday, after the medical examiner determined the boy died of a drug overdose.
Sakani Kamagate was just 16 months old when he died.
Police said they were called to a home on Hamilton Avenue in St. George just after 4 a.m. on Feb. 20. First responders found the boy unconscious and unresponsive on a bed in a bedroom, according to the NYPD.
EMS rushed Kamagate to a hospital, but he could not be saved. At the time, police had said there were no obvious signs of trauma.
The medical examiner’s office on Wednesday told PIX11 News that the boy died of acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, and cocaine.
No arrests had been made in the case, as of Wednesday.
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