Man Pleads Guilty in Overdose Death of Maryland Mother of 3

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A man pleaded guilty to selling the mixture of fentanyl and heroin that killed a Gaithersburg, Maryland, mother of three in August 2020.

The 34-year-old victim had been sober for about a year when anxiety got to her, her mother said.

Court documents showed a text conversation between the victim and Enitan Agbi as she drove to the parking lot of a Gaithersburg motel to buy drugs from him. Agbi told her to relax, and she replied, โ€œI canโ€™t.โ€ She added, โ€œIโ€™m sick.โ€

Her mother said she prefers to remember her daughter โ€“ her only child โ€“ as more than her addiction, saying she was a joyful person who loved playing with her children.

She was in court when the man accused of selling the heroin and fentanyl mixture that killed her daughter entered a guilty plea.

โ€œI think it was healing for me to see this person was brought to justice,โ€ she said.

She said the death also cost her a 10-year-old grandson, who she had raised in her home since he was a boy but has now gone to live with his father.

โ€œI was granted de facto parenthood, which means that I now have court-ordered visitation with my grandson,โ€ she said.

She keeps a memory garden containing a stone with her daughterโ€™s name outside her townhouse.

Sheโ€™s grateful for contact with her youngest two grandchildren, who are being raised by their fathersโ€™ families, but she is angry at how much the opioid epidemic has taken from her and so many others.

โ€œI actually found a note when I was cleaning through things,โ€ she said. โ€œShe had written a note that I never knew about that says, โ€˜If anything ever happens to me, if I die, I want my mother to raise my son.โ€™โ€

Agbi faces a lengthy prison term at sentencing in September.

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