REDWOOD CITY – An inmate’s death last week at a Redwood City jail is being investigated as a drug-related homicide, authorities said.

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The inmate, identified as 31-year-old Markeisha Monique Renee Blount, suffered a medical emergency around 6 a.m. on Sept. 29 at the Maple Street Correctional Facility, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Tuesday. Jail personnel administered life-saving measures, including Narcan, but she died at the facility.

Detectives determined another inmate brought drugs into the jail and gave them to Blount, the sheriff’s office said, adding that “the drugs are believed to have contained fentanyl.”

The county coroner’s office will determine Blount’s official cause of death, the sheriff’s office said.

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