SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — A Seminole County man faces murder charges in the overdose death of a 19-year-old woman last year.
David Hare was indicted Jan. 15 by a grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder by the distribution of a controlled substance.
Hare is accused of providing Jessica Akerman and her friend Daniel Bachert with fentanyl, which ultimately led to Akerman’s fatal overdose.
Grand Jury Indicts 2nd Defendant David HARE (52) for Murder, in connection to the @SeminoleSO 2020 drug overdose death of Jessica Ackerman (19). More at: https://t.co/VcN71Augkl pic.twitter.com/fW8f8OOKy7
— State Attorney 18th Circuit FL (@SA18PIO) January 18, 2021
According to the indictment, Ackerman had been doing drugs with Bachert on the night of January 22, 2020, when she went into cardiac arrest.
Detectives say Bachert waited nearly 4 hours before finally dropping Akerman off outside a local hospital and leaving her in a wheelchair.
Bachert, who was indicted in October, later admitted to providing the fentanyl to Ackerman but said he received it from Hare.
Hare now joins a growing list of more than 20 people in Seminole county charged with murder for providing drugs that ended in an overdose death.
Sheriff Dennis Lemma says that those that provide drugs are ultimately responsible for those deaths.
“Our overall comprehensive effort to address opioid use is to track it back to the drug dealer’ Lemma said.
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He says charging the dealers with the deaths connected to the drugs they provide can help disrupt the cycle.
“If we can take someone off the street and charge them with a crime, think about the number of people who would normally be victims of their dealings and have similar fates,” he said.
Hare was already being held in the Florida Department of Corrections and will be transferred to the Seminole County Jail to await trial.
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