El Camino Real High Baseball Player Dies of Fentanyl Overdose

Tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl are displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory in New York on Oct. 8, 2019. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.—A high school baseball player from Woodland Hills has died from a fentanyl overdose, and his classmates are mourning his death Oct. 7.

Cade Kitchen, a 17-year-old student at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, died of fentanyl poisoning last week and the school sent a letter to the community Oct. 6 announcing the student’s death.