A sheriff's deputy rushed into a trailer home last summer north of Troy to find a newborn girl not breathing. The home, authorities said, was littered with drugs, the most potent of which were opioids. "Fentanyl caplets and buttons were throughout the entire house," said Lincoln County Prosecutor Mike Wood. "It was everywhere." Police and medics tried to resuscitate the infant, 7-week-old Ty'Ann Paisley Curtner, but she was pronounced dead after arriving at a hospital. She likely had been dead from two to six hours before someone called 911, said county Coroner Dan Heavin. Ty'Ann's death Aug. 19 sparked a lengthy investigation that resulted in indictments announced this week against six adults. The baby's mother, Selena Rodriguez, 22, and the baby's father, Gabriel Clark, 22, are charged with second-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death, as are the baby's grandmother, Shawna Walton, 44; the baby's uncle, Dillon Clark, 25; and two of the father's roommates, Evan Hausermann, 43, and Adam Hausermann, 46. Rodriguez lived elsewhere, but the others all stayed in the home on Charlotte Drive where the baby died, Wood said Thursday. Bond for each was set at $500,000 cash. The six adults were indicted Dec. 13. Ty'Ann had two broken ribs in various stages of healing, which Wood said indicated older wounds, and bleeding on the brain. Authorities initially were planning to prosecute for a shaken-baby death, but Wood said toxicology results came back last week that determined the death was due to an overdose of meth and fentanyl, Wood said.
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Died
Aug. 19, 2023
Type
Child abuse
Age
7 weeks old
Gender
Female
Where
First block of Charlotte Drive,
Unincorporated,
Lincoln County