July death of toddler ruled homicide: officials

The death of a 2-year-old found slumped over in her stroller on the West Side in July after ingesting drugs her mother had taken has been determined to be suspicious, officials said this week.

Pier’ Re Addiana Welborne died of combined drug toxicity and her death was ruled a homicide, the Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled earlier this week.

Initially when she died on July 15, an autopsy was inconclusive and pending further studies.

Pier’ Re Addiana’s mom, 44, flagged down officers and asked them if they had any Narcan because she had gotten sick on her toddler who shortly after that became unresponsive about 4 p.m. on July 15 in the 2600 block of West Roosevelt Road, according to a police report.

Narcan, also known as naloxone, is a drug that reverses an opioid overdose.

Officers rushed the child, who was slumped over in her stroller, to Stroger Hospital in their police car but she was pronounced dead there at 5:08 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office and the report.

According to the report, a toxicology exam on the 44-year-old woman determined she had “toxic” levels of methadone and tramadol in her body.

Tramadol is a pain reliever and Methadone can be used to treat opioid use disorder including heroin, according to the Mayo Clinic’s website.

The case was initially being investigated as an endangering the life and health of a child case but on Wednesday police spoke to the medical examiner’s office and learned her death was ruled a homicide, according to the report.

Police have not announced any charges.

Area 4 detectives are investigating.