UPDATE (3:35 p.m.): News 5 is continuing to gather more information about the guilty verdict of a teenager in a fentanyl overdose death case.
Jury deliberation lasted 90 minutes and the only question they asked was what manslaughter is.
He was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and possession of a controlled substance.
Both charges are a lesser charge than what he originally was presented with.
Original Story
SEMMES, Ala. ( WKRG ) — A 19-year-old has been found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the fentanyl overdose death of a Semmes teenager in 2022.
A jury found Jackson Lewis guilty Wednesday after two days of testimony. Jury selection began on Monday.
The trial comes after Lewis was arrested and charged with manslaughter after he gave a pill laced with fentanyl to 15-year-old Adrianna Taylor.
Adrianna was found dead at a home in Semmes due to an overdose on Aug. 30. Lewis is being tried as an adult.
During testimony, a 21-year-old witness who was at the home with Adrianna when she died said he, Lewis and Taylor were all doing drugs at Lewis’s grandmother’s house that day.