2-Year-Old Child Dies In Presumed Drug Overdose, 3-Year-Old Sister Hospitalized

A 2-year-old child has died in Indiana after allegedly overdosing on drugs he got from his parents' medicine box.

The boy's 3-year-old sister was also hospitalized in the incident Wednesday. The police were called to a house in Serenity Drive, Fort Wayne, for a “problem unknown” where two children were found unresponsive, Wane.com reported.

After arriving at the scene, the Fort Wayne Fire Department and Three Rivers Ambulance Authority (TRAA) paramedics gave medical care to the children at the scene, following which they were rushed to a hospital where doctors declared the 2-year-old, identified as Terris Johnson, dead. The type of drug that caused the child's death remains unclear.

Authorities said the 3-year-old girl was in life-threatening condition.

Both children were administered Narcan – mostly used to reverse the effects of a drug overdose – after the paramedics learned the children got into their parents' medicine box.

Several people reportedly took to social media to slam the mother for the children's fate. However, the unidentified woman's neighbors said she was a good mother. Details about the father were not available.

"She loves them kids. Each little milestone she goes wild. She just told me this morning he just learned how to say blueberry. And that just crushed me," neighbor Nancy Johnson said about the children's mother, according to Fort Wayne's NBC reported.

"I've never met nobody that little that died, was close to somebody that little. I don't know. I just don't know. Just so sweet, just little, tiny. They both of them sweet. The little girl bright eyed and bushy tailed always. They were just sweet kids," she added.

"I have a 3-year-old and I couldn't imagine losing a child, and I'm just praying for the family. ... God knows what happened, so you can't be nasty because you never know what can happen, you know? So everybody just needs to pray for them," neighbor Ashley Clopton said.

Authorities said the 2-year-old's cause of death will be determined after the autopsy report is out. They have also run toxicology tests on both the children, investigators said.