HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Diana Mitchell remembers the anger and frustration she had with the legal system back in January 2019 when her daughter Brooke, 18 and a student at Bethel High School, had just died from a fentanyl overdose.
Mitchell knew her daughter was using heroin, and Brooke thought that’s what some so-called friends had given her. Instead it was a combination of cocaine, molly and two types of fentanyl — the opioid that’s 50 times more deadly than heroin.
“Why are you not out here charging the people that did this to my daughter, the people that gave her the drugs,” she had asked the authorities…