Teenager sentenced for selling fentanyl-laced pills that killed Elizabethtown HS student/athlete

An Elizabethtown man has been sentenced after an Elizabethtown High School student/athlete died of a drug overdose.

Damien S. Felker, 19, was sentenced on Tuesday in a Hardin County courtroom for his role in the overdose death of 17-year-old Hayden Willett.

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, who had signed to play college baseball at Asbury College on December 13, 2024, died on December 18, 2024.

In a plea deal, Felker pled guilty to trafficking in a controlled substance resulting in death, unlawful transaction with a minor (controlled substance), tampering with physical evidence, trafficking in marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to a report by The News-Enterprise.

He admitted in court to facilitating the sale of the deadly drug to Willett, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with parole eligibility after five years.

As K105 previously reported, Aadyn Kristopher-Nelson Durbin, 18, of LaRue County, was sentenced to prison last month after selling fentanyl to Willett. He pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter, trafficking in a controlled substance (fentanyl) and trafficking in marijuana.

Durbin was also sentenced to 10 years, according to the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office.

(Headline photo: Damien S. Felker)