Daisy Markley found her child’s limp body slumped over at the end of their bed. One pill was all it took to kill Jax Markley, a transgender teen from Santa Clarita who overdosed on fentanyl just months after graduating from high school.
“I’ll never forget the sound of my wife’s scream calling me upstairs,” Matt Markley said, recalling his child’s death in November 2022. “I dropped everything and came running. It was my worst nightmare.”
It’s a nightmare the Markleys wake up to every morning. But on Monday, the grieving parents received some measure of relief when U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson sentenced the drug dealer responsible for Jax’s death to six years in prison…