Woman dropped off at Warren hospital appears to have died from overdose, coroner says

Staff report

WARREN

A woman dropped off at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital early Monday appears to have died from a drug overdose, but it will take a couple of months to know for sure, Trumbull County Coroner Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk said.

She is identified as Destiny M. Willis, 34, of Second Street Southwest and Red Fox Run Drive. She was pronounced dead after attempts to revive her by medical personnel failed.

A ruling on the cause of death is pending the results of toxicology tests, which take about two months to receive.

There was no evidence of foul play or trauma on her body, Dr. Germaniuk said.

Police said an unidentified white male pulled up to the emergency room doors at 12:55 a.m. Monday and told emergency-room personnel that a woman was passed out in his car.

They removed her from the car but were unable to revive her, police said. She was initially unidentified.

Willis had been arrested at 3:40 a.m. Jan. 28 during a traffic stop on Scott Street Northeast. She was a passenger in a Mercedes-Benz with no license plates.

Police took her to the Trumbull County Jail after discovering there was a warrant for her arrest related to a 2013 criminal case. She was in the jail less than two hours before being released.

She was indicted in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in November on several felony drug charges related to a traffic stop Sept. 28, 2015, near the Hampshire House apartments on Fifth Street Southwest in which drugs were found in her clothes.

Dr. Germaniuk said Willis is one of four people suspected to have died of a drug overdose in the county in the past three days.