Columbus man accused of causing teen’s overdose

Grandview Heights police are looking for a 19-year-old Columbus man accused of causing the fatal overdose of a 17-year-old girl by injecting her with a lethal dose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.

Benjamin Bussey, whose address is listed as "streets of Columbus" on court documents, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and corrupting another with drugs in the death of Haleah Myers.

A warrant was issued for his arrest Wednesday.

Grandview Heights police responded to a report of a suspicious person in a house on the 1200 block of Broadview Avenue at 3:28 a.m. March 31, according to charging documents filed in Franklin County Municipal Court.

Responding officers searched the house and found Myers unconscious in the basement and took her to Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center in critical condition, the documents said.

The teenager died at the hospital April 4, court records show.

An autopsy report released July 3 concluded that she died of a fentanyl overdose.

Through interviews with witnesses, investigators identified Bussey as the man who bought the fentanyl and injected Haleah, court documents said.

Bussey fled the house once he realized Haleah was unconscious, court records state.