Shaun Long

Police say a Venango County man refused to revive a woman who overdosed at his house last year and then dumped her body in Butler County.

Shaun M. Long, 49, of Scrubgrass Township is charged with felony drug delivery resulting in death; two counts of felony hindering apprehension; plus involuntary manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, false reports, tampering with evidence and obstructing the administration of law — all misdemeanor offenses.

Police named Long as a suspect last year when investigating the death of Kayla Dunlap, 28, whose body was found along Lake Road in Oakland Township near Oneida Valley Dam on Sept. 17.

An autopsy found that her cause of death was combined fentanyl and amphetamine intoxication, according to court documents.

Police, while investigating her death, learned that Dunlap and Long had been seen together the night before her body was found. They executed a search warrant at Long's house on Eakin Road on Oct. 3. Based on what they allegedly found, he was arrested and placed in Venango County Prison, charged with felonies for allegedly operating a methamphetamine lab.

He refused to answer questions about Dunlap after his arrest, police said.

Long's bail, set at $100,000 for a drug case, was revoked Tuesday when he was arraigned by District Judge Patrick Lowrey. The judge determined him to be a flight risk, according to court documents.

Grace A. O'Day of Kennerdell, Venango County, in an interview with police allegedly said that she was at Long's house on Sept. 16 when he gave her five bags of fentanyl and she overdosed, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

O'Day told police that she administered Narcan to try and revive Dunlap, but one dose was not effective and Long refused to call 911, the affidavit said.

She then admitted to helping Long dump the body along the side of the road, according to police.

A search warrant for Long's SUV turned up suspected blood stains on the trunk liner and the search of his house found a discarded Narcan injector, documents said.

Dunlap was a graduate of Keystone High School at Knox, Clarion County, and worked as a nursing assistant in Clarion County nursing homes, according to her obituary.

Trooper Christopher Balcik, the investigating officer in the case, said that Long or O'Day should have called for an ambulance to save the woman's life, regardless of the consequences.

“You don't let someone overdose and dump their body a county over. You call the police, you call 911. I think that's the moral of the story,” he said.

O'Day as of Thursday had not been charged with any criminal offenses, but the incident remains under investigation, Balcik said.

Drug delivery resulting in death carries a prison term of no more than 40 years, according to the Pennsylvania criminal code.

Court documents did not list an attorney for Long. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing April 4.