MORGAN COUNTY, Tenn. — The District Attorney General said two people were convicted and sentenced in a 2022 Morgan County overdose case.
In a release, DA Russell Johnson said deputies with the Morgan County Sheriff's Office responded to a Deer Lodge home on May 21, 2022, and found three people had taken narcotics. Johnson said deputies revived two people, but a third person was reported dead from a combination of fentanyl, oxycodone and Gabapentin toxicity.
Tammy Conner was one of the people revived in the home, and she was convicted of trading oxycodone for fentanyl from Anthony Shelley. She pled guilty to attempted facilitation of second-degree murder and was sentenced to six years on probation and was required to complete an inpatient program, followed by outpatient treatment.
Shelley was convicted of second-degree murder for supplying the fentanyl that led to the death. He will serve 15 years in prison.
Johnson said since January 2023, there have been ten overdose deaths in Morgan County and 78 overdose deaths in the four counties of his judicial district.
