Police are investigating a possible drug-fueled party in Colorado that turned tragic after five people were found dead in an apartment and a four-month-old baby was also found alive.
According to Commerce City police Chief Clint Nichols, the deaths of three women and two men were discovered inside a unit at The North Range Crossings Apartments on East 104th Avenue.
He said that another adult and an infant had been discovered alive.
According to Nichols, a substance that “could be described as illicit narcotics” was discovered in the home, with more testing anticipated.
“If it is going to be illicit drugs, they were very, very bad,” he said, according to the news outlet. “If it was drugs, no one was able to get to a phone and call 911 for a medical emergency.”
He added, “It happened pretty quickly — speculation on my part.”
Nichols also noted no indication of any hazardous gases in the area.
Ian Scott, a witness, told the newspaper that when he stepped outside, he heard a woman holding a baby screaming into a phone that Sunday afternoon.
He described her as “high as a kite,” adding that she told him she’d given a man in the apartment a substance used to reverse overdoses.
Late Saturday, Scott claimed he heard what sounded like a party with music and loud noise.
According to Nichols, investigators did not know whether the infant’s parents were present in the apartment and whether all the dead individuals lived there.
