According to the warrant, Kouri told authorities that the evening before, Eric drank a Moscow Mule cocktail she had made him to observe her closing connected a location for her business. The documents besides authorities that Kouri—who shared 3 kids with Eric—said she had gone to furniture that nighttime but aboriginal went to slumber with 1 of their 3 sons successful their chamber due to the fact that helium was "having a nighttime terror." She past allegedly woke up astir 3 a.m. and discovered Eric successful their chamber "cold to the touch" and called 911.

After an autopsy showed that Eric died from an overdose of fentanyl and that it was ingested orally, constabulary executed a hunt warrant connected the Richins residence and seized Kouri's telephone and respective computers. She had previously told constabulary that she near her telephone charged adjacent to her furniture the nighttime Eric died. However, according to the charging warrant, investigators discovered that the instrumentality was locked and unlocked aggregate times and that substance messages were sent and received, past deleted.

Investigators further recovered she had had communications with an acquaintance identified arsenic C.L. The charging warrant states that connected May 2, detectives interviewed the person, who alleged that Kouri had texted them betwixt December 2021 and February 2022 to inquire if they could get her "prescription symptom medicine for an capitalist who had a backmost injury."

According to the charging warrant, C.L. told investigators that they procured for her hydrocodone pills from a dealer, and that 2 weeks later, Kouri allegedly made interaction again and said that her capitalist wanted thing stronger and asked for "some of the Michael Jackson stuff." (The singer died successful 2009 aft receiving a lethal dose of propofol.)

According to the tribunal documents, C.L. alleged that Kouri "asked specifically for fentanyl" and they aboriginal acquired for her 15-30 pills. Days after the alleged conversation, Eric and Kouri had a Valentine's Day 2022 meal astatine location and helium "became precise ill," with him telling a person that helium "thought his woman was trying to poison him," the documents state. Kouri aboriginal allegedly obtained much fentanyl pills from C.L. and after six days, "Eric was recovered dormant of a fentanyl overdose," according to the charging warrant.

After Kouri was arrested and charged, a justice ordered her to stay detained without bail, with tribunal records showing that a detention proceeding has been scheduled for May 19.

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