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SAN JOSE, Calif. – A San Jose man and woman were convicted on Friday of murder in the fatal drug overdose of their 19-month-old daughter.<\/a><\/p>\n A jury found Derek Rayo, 29, and Kelly Richardson, 31, responsible for the 2023 death of Winter Rayo<\/a> after leaving the toddler in a room with fentanyl and methamphetamine, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said the child had about 25 times the lethal amount of fentanyl in her blood, as well as additional undigested fentanyl in her stomach.<\/p>\n Winter Rayo is shown in this undated photo. She died in 2023 after being exposed to fentanyl and suffering an overdose. <\/p>\n Rayo and Richardson waited more than 11 hours before calling 911 to report that their daughter had died, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n Reaction to conviction <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “Fentanyl kills,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said. “In this case, the powerful opioid was left around this toddler like a loaded gun. The criminal recklessness of these two defendants killed their own child. I thank the jury for giving that child\u2019s tragically short life some meaning.”<\/p>\n Winter\u2019s parents were the first in Santa Clara County\u2019s history to be charged and then convicted of murdering their own child by exposure to fentanyl.<\/p>\n Each defendant faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said they have also filed murder charges against the dealer accused of supplying the drugs to the couple.<\/a><\/p>\n The Source: Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office<\/p>\n San Jose<\/a>Opioid Epidemic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. – A San Jose man and woman were convicted on Friday of murder in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,13242,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":["post-307019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-opioid-epidemic","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-08-180609.png\")
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