May 10, 2021, began like any other afternoon for 15-year-old Michael Stabile. The freshman at Lake City High School in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho — who had just been promoted at his after-school job at Pokéworks restaurant — came home, greeted his parents, and “went to into his room and turned on his music like he normally does,” according to his sister, Kristin. But as evening drew on, his parents checked on him, only to find him passed out in his room, unresponsive. Though they administered CPR, they were unable to revive him. The teenager died of an overdose after taking one or more counterfeit prescription pills secretly laced with fentanyl.
While Stabile was irreplaceable, law enforcement made him part of a grim statistic: The teen was one of five people to suffer a fatal overdose of fentanyl-contaminated pills in Kootenai County during an eight-day period.
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