Two people have overdosed as they traveled through Grayson County.
Saturday night at approximately 7:30, Grayson County Deputies Justin Cockerel and Tim Jackson, Constable Bill Dalton, the Clarkson Fire Department, and EMS responded to the Barrett’s Marathon parking lot, in the 900 block of Millerstown Road, on the report of a male and female overdosing.
The two people, both from Hardin County, had been traveling with a man and juvenile on the Western Kentucky Parkway when they stopped at Leitchfield to get gas. When they got back onto the parkway, traveling east, the driver told K105 the female, Christina Hicks, 45, went unresponsive soon followed by the male.
The driver exited the parkway and pulled into the Barrett’s parking lot and called 911.
Both the male, believed to be in his 30s, and Hicks, were in and out of consciousness. At one point, the driver thinks the male, who suffers from multiple medical conditions, stopped breathing. When he began breathing again, he displayed agonal (gasping for air) breathing, the driver said.
(“The gasping associated with agonal breathing is not true breathing, but rather a brainstem reflex,” according to Medical News Today. “Agonal breathing often occurs because the heart is no longer circulating oxygen-rich blood. In other cases, it may be due to the lungs not bringing in enough oxygen.”)
They were transported by EMS to Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center. The male was later transferred to Baptist Health Hardin. His current condition is not known.
It’s unclear what drug[s] the two took.
During a search of the Dodge truck the two were traveling in, deputies located a firearm in Hicks’ belongings. Being a felon, Hicks, after being treated and released from the hospital, was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center.
According to online records, Hicks has been arrested numerous times over the last 13 years on a multitude of charges, including theft, DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, possession of a controlled substance, possession of a legend drug, unlawful possession of a methamphetamine precursor, probation violations, and first-degree wanton endangerment.
Hicks’ arrests have been primarily in Hardin County, but she has also been jailed in Casey, Grant and Henderson counties.
(Headline photo: The scene at Barrett’s Marathon as first responders treated the male and Hicks)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
