Police responding to a 911 call on the evening of Aug. 10 at the Oxford House found Fulmer and another resident of the group home, 40-year-old Mandy Strother, dead on a bathroom floor.
A resident had discovered the women’s bodies after becoming concerned that the shower had been running in the bathroom for an hour. The resident was able to unlock the door and found the women collapsed atop each other on the floor. A syringe lay nearby.
Homicide Sgt. Joe Loughman said investigators believe that both women’s deaths are drug-related but are awaiting toxicology test results by the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office for confirmation.
“The coroner told me in all of his years of doing this, he’s never seen two people overdose simultaneously,” Rich Fulmer said. “He suspects there was something in there that just took them instantly.”
Strother’s family declined to be interviewed.
Richard Fulmer said he and his ex-wife want to share Fulmer’s story in hopes of “saving some other parent’s baby.”
“Every time a child is putting a needle in their arm, it’s like they’re playing Russian roulette,” Rich Fulmer said. “Sooner or later, everybody is going to lose.”
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