Brianna Romero died of a drug overdose in prison (PHOTOS)

• Deavonne Romero and Brianna Romero unleashed a shooting outside a high school.
• Brianna Romero died of a drug overdose in prison.
• The Santa Fe Police Department launched an investigation.

Brianna Romero, 20, died of a drug overdose while in police custody in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The young woman was detained along with her sister Deavonne Romero, both accused of 13 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after starring in a brutal shooting against a high school along with another girl already detained.

The young Deavonne Romero, 23, is in the prison of the Santa Fe County, where her 20-year-old sister Brianna Romero was also held before she died of an overdose. In addition, a 16-year-old named Elijah Gallegos, who accompanied the Romero sisters during the shooting perpetrated by the three girls, was also arrested.

Brianna Romero dies of a drug overdose in prison

According to the case documents, consulted by MundoHispánico, last Thursday, September 30, 2021 in the morning the authorities of the Capital High School, located at 4851 Paseo del Sol, called the emergency number of the Santa Fe Police Department (SFPD) alarmed by a shooting.

According to the report that Capital High School staff offered to the SFPD, several young women began shooting from a car outside the school. Several police officers were dispatched to the area of ​​the shooting in the southwest of the Santa Fe metropolitan area to attend to the report. The police officers ordered all students to be locked in their classrooms.

Brianna Romero and Deavonne Romero set up a shooting

The first SFPD patrolmen to arrive at the scene of the shooting reported that in the Capital High School parking lot there was a hail of bullets that damaged dozens of cars. The authorities detailed that after the incident no one was injured by the shots. The motive for the shooting is not known until now.

The SFPD mounted a surveillance operation around the school and thanks to the videos from the security cameras of Capital High School, they were able to identify the car in which the three Hispanic girls who had perpetrated the attack were traveling. This is how they identified Deavonne Romero, Brianna Romero and Elijah Gallegos.

They accuse the detainees of several serious charges

The SFPD agents during their surveillance operation saw the car in which Deavonne Romero, Brianna Romero and Elijah Gallegos were traveling and detained them. Guns matching the caliber of the casings were found on the three girls, which were found scattered in the parking lot outside Capital High School.

Following the arrest, SFPD agents took sisters Deavonne Romero and Brianna Romero to the Santa Fe County Jail and Elijah Gallegos to the San Juan Center for Youth, so that the three girls could face their respective criminal charges, charged with 13 counts. aggravated assault with firearms.

Brianna Romero enters an observation cell

Criminal records from the Santa Fe County Jail detail that sisters Deavonne and Brianna Romero entered the prison at 11:00 a.m. after being processed. The two girls were put in observation cells, an administrative procedure, for a few hours.

In county jails in the United States, inmates occupy an observation cell, before being taken to the dormitory that will be assigned to them while in detention. The observation cells serve, as their name indicates, so that the administrative staff of the prisons observe the behavior of each prisoner and their degree of danger.

Brianna Romero is found unconscious for the first time

At 12:00 on the day of that Thursday, September 30, 2021, an agent of the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office (SFCSO, for its acronym in English), who was doing his patrol in front of the observation cells, noticed that the young Hispanic Brianna Romero was lying unconscious on the floor of the observation cell that had been assigned to her.

The SFCSO officer asked for help from the prison medical staff, who determined that the girl was going through some kind of crisis and decided to transfer her to the emergency room. Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center. Doctors at the hospital determined that the girl was suffering from a severe opium overdose crisis and that is why she had collapsed.

Brianna Romero had the drug in a «body cavity»

Doctors at Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center discovered that the girl kept in a «body cavity», it was not specified which cavity, a plastic bag with several pills that were discovered to be composed of fentanyl, which is an opioid one hundred times more powerful than dangerous heroin.

The investigation of the case does not detail how it was possible that the girl kept a plastic bag with the fentanyl pills, without being detected in the review that should have been done when she entered the Santa Fe County jail. Brianna Romero was discharged at 5:45 p.m. that day and returned to the county jail.

Brianna Romero falls unconscious in her cell again

Brianna Romero returned to the Santa Fe County Jail at 7:45 p.m., according to her admission records, and was again placed in an observation cell. His sister Deavonne Romero was taken, separately, to the bedroom where she continues to be detained. Until that moment the girl did not know what had happened to her younger sister.

On the morning of last Friday, October 1, 2021, a guard passed in front of Brianna Romero’s cell and did not notice anything abnormal in the Hispanic girl. Another guard from the detention center passed in front of the girl’s cell 20 minutes later and it was there that he saw her again lying on the floor and unconscious.

Fentanyl and Brianna’s «Clear Crystals»

According to the SFCSO report, when checking the girl, the girl was in the middle of a heart attack from an overdose. The story is even more complicated because a prison doctor found another plastic bag in a «body cavity» and in which the girl hid more drugs «transparent crystals», according to the report.

The report in the case details that the second bag that Brianna Romero carried in her «body cavity» was completely different from the first bag of fentanyl found in the hospital. It is unclear from the investigation how Brianna Romero was able to get a second bag of drugs inside the county jail.

«There are no signs of neurological activity»

In the investigation opened by the SFCSO agents, in conjunction with the SFPD, it is detailed that the doctor who examined Brianna Romero declared that the girl had suffered an overdose of some opioid, presumably fentanyl, and no longer had signs of brain activity, while his vital signs were minimal.

«There are no signs of neurological activity, the physical condition and vital signs are unstable,» is in the case record when doctors discovered the body of young Brianna Romero. The SFPD is conducting an investigation with the agents of the Internal Affairs Division to find out how the drug girl was made inside the jail.

«A wonderful mother, daughter, friend»

Brianna Romero officially passed away last Sunday, October 10, 2021 at Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center and the official cause of death was determined as a drug overdose. The girl was convalescing in a coma until she couldn’t take it anymore and passed away. Deavonne Romero’s criminal process continues as normal.

The dead girl’s friends and family opened the account Brianna Romero’s Funeral Expenses (Funeral Expenses for Brianna Romero) on the Go Fund Me social network to ask for financial help for the girl’s funeral, whom they described as “a wonderful mother, sister, daughter and friend” who deeply touched many lives.

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