CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The trial began Tuesday for a Clarksville man charged with second-degree murder in the 2022 overdose death of 27-year-old Matthew Ashburn.
Dominic Enrique Rios, 33, was indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury in June 2023 on one count of second-degree murder by distribution of fentanyl. Rios was also charged with selling and delivering fentanyl. He has pleaded not guilty.
How fentanyl homicide case unfolded in 2022
According to an arrest warrant obtained by Clarksville Now, officers were called to a Hunting Creek Court residence south of Dover Road on Aug. 14, 2022, for a possible overdose. They found Ashburn dead on the back deck and a small amount of suspected narcotics at the scene field-tested positive for fentanyl.
Investigators reviewed Ashburn’s cellphone and found that the last incoming call came from a number belonging to Rios. Phone records showed multiple calls between the two in the hours before Ashburn’s death…