A Killeen man pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a fentanyl death case, highlighting a two-year-old Texas law designed to hold drug dealers responsible when their customers die from overdoses. Last year marked the first time a Bell County grand jury indicted a suspect for murder under this statute.

A fatal fentanyl overdose claimed the life of a 16-year-old in Carter County. Now, after a guilty plea to second-degree murder, the defendant faces 18 years without the possibility of parole.