A nearby resident asked today about an SPD, SFD, and King County Medical Examiner’s Office response last night at Rotary Viewpoint Park (35th SW/SW Alaska). First SFD told us they had responded to a report of a person who had died before medics arrived. SPD said they had no details because officers were still drafting a report. Then the ME’s daily list of investigated deaths arrived, and this case was already on it. They list the 47-year-old man’s cause of death as an accidental overdose of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine. There’s no information about whether he had been living at the park, which as we’ve reported has been the site of encampments. According to the ME’s report, which comes out on regular business days, his was one of 11 overdose deaths in King County investigated in the past three days; seven were listed as occurring in residences (addresses are not listed in those cases), two in vehicles, one in a parking lot, and this one in a park.
