CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – A woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after injecting her boyfriend with a mixture of fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Julie Samantha Lecka, 47, reached the settlement on Friday with the District Attorney’s Office, according to a news release from Clarksville Police spokesman Scott Beaubien.
At 8:41 a.m. on Jan. 14, 2021, police responded to Depot Street and South Seventh Street for a man having a seizure or overdose.
Officers met Julie Samantha Lecka, who had called 911 for her boyfriend, Edward James Myers, who was unresponsive. He was transported to Tennova Healthcare-Clarksville, where he was later pronounced dead, Beaubien said.
An autopsy found Myers’ cause of death to be mixed drug intoxication (fentanyl, methamphetamine) and the manner of death to be homicide.
Lecka admitted to Detective Cooper Goble that she injected the narcotics that caused Myers to overdose, Beaubien said.
She pleaded to second-degree murder, and she will serve 17 years at 100% in prison.