An 18-year-old LaRue County man has been sentenced to prison after selling fentanyl to an Elizabethtown High School student that resulted in his death.
The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office announced that 18-year-old Aadyn Kristopher-Nelson Durbin, of Hodgenville, pled guilty in a Hardin County courtroom to second-degree manslaughter, trafficking in a controlled substance (fentanyl) and trafficking in marijuana.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Willett is thought to have taken a Percocet pill[s] laced with fentanyl in a “bad batch of clandestinely made” pills that the Elizabethtown Police Department said are “circulating in the community” and have resulted in multiple overdoses.
Willett had signed to play baseball at Asbury College on December 13, only days before the fatal overdose.
“Nothing will ever fill the empty seat left at this family’s kitchen table, but this conviction should send a crystal clear message. Kentucky will not tolerate this poison in our communities,” Attorney General Russell Coleman said. “We are raising kids at a time when as little as one pill can kill. There is no margin of error, and Kentucky law enforcement will trace these pills to the source to hold drug traffickers accountable.”
Last year, 1,410 Kentuckians died of a fatal overdose and fentanyl was present in over 60 percent of those deaths, according to the attorney general’s office.
(Photo l-r: Aadyn Durbin, Hayden Willett, courtesy of Yokley-Trible Funeral Home)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
