{"id":328371,"date":"2026-06-09T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328371\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:53:13","slug":"investigation-into-texas-city-mans-overdose-leads-to-murder-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328371\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation into Texas City man&#8217;s overdose leads to murder arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/u303ex092dtoxgze.jpg\" alt=\"Woman charged with murder in fentanyl death\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/u303ex092dtoxgze.jpg\" alt=\"Woman charged with murder in fentanyl death\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-48f3b93e=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/video\/fmc-11kcyhmdvy3l3e0x\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woman charged with murder in fentanyl death<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">A woman is now charged with murder in connection to a fentanyl overdose that took the life of a 21-year-old Texas City man. FOX 26&#8217;s Leslie DelasBour has the latest after speaking with the victim&#8217;s family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TEXAS CITY, Texas &#8211; A woman is now charged with murder in connection to a deadly fentanyl overdose that killed a 21-year-old Texas City man.<\/p>\n<p>   Woman charged in connection to deadly fentanyl overdose that killed a Texas City man <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities say on August 2, 2025, La Marque police, fire crews and EMS were called to a Super 8 motel, where they found Chase Boone in distress inside a room.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">First responders tried to save him, but Boone died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators later learned from the Galveston County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office that Boone died from a fentanyl overdose.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Through a joint investigation involving La Marque Police, the Galveston County District Attorney\u2019s Office, the DEA and U.S. Marshals, authorities identified Brooklyn Pace as a suspect.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780966393_470_image-1.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Pace was arrested on May 21, 2026, and charged with murder. Her bond was set at $200,000.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials say the case is part of a broader push to fight fentanyl through the Fentanyl Free America initiative.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities say fentanyl remains a serious threat in communities across the Houston area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: La Marque Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/texas-city\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woman charged with murder in fentanyl death A woman is now charged with murder in connection to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,223,27,9192,29,28,2053,216,393],"class_list":["post-328371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-city","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-top-stories","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}