A Lyndora man was charged last week with administering drugs that resulted in a woman’s death in 2025, Butler police said.

Matthew Richard Tolley, 40, is facing the charges in relation to the death of Jacquelyn Rotan, who was found dead of drug poisoning on March 4, 2025, in a Walker Avenue apartment, according to police.

Tolley was charged Friday, March 27, with felony drug delivery resulting in death, possession with intent to deliver controlled substances and criminal use of a communication facility.

Police said they were dispatched around 2 p.m. that day to the apartment for reports of an overdose.

Police were told two doses of Narcan had been administered and CPR was in progress. Resuscitation efforts by people at the scene and Butler Ambulance Service personnel were unsuccessful.

Rotan was pronounced dead at 2:32 p.m., police said. A later autopsy said her death was the result of combined drug poisoning, including fentanyl, cocaine and acetaminophen.

Police interviewed a man who resided at the apartment two days later, which led them to Tolley. The man told police he witnessed Tolley enter Rotan’s room the night before her death and inject a syringe into her neck. The man said he’d witnessed Tolley inject Rotan on multiple occasions, but it was unusual that Tolley had prepared her syringe this time.

The man told police he fell asleep a short time later and awoke to a panicked scene. Police said Tolley told the man that he had administered two Narcan doses and called 911.

However, before leaving apartment with the three other occupants, Tolley changed his story and told the man who stayed that he had not called 911, according to the affidavit.

That man then called 911 and performed CPR until help arrived, police said.

Police apprehended and interviewed Tolley on March 12, 2025. Tolley said he’d been living with Rotan for several weeks and had known her family since grade school. He slept on the floor of her bedroom while she slept in the bed, police said.

Tolley told police he and Rotan would commonly share a cellphone to purchase controlled substances. He said he’d assist with injecting Rotan and had given her Narcan at least twice while living there.

Police said Tolley had difficulty recalling details from the day of the incident. He said when he woke up, he could not see her from the floor but suspected something was wrong when she was not answering his questions.

Tolley also told police he wasn’t certain if Narcan was administered before or after he called for help, but he believed it had been administered.

Tolley said he left the apartment due to an outstanding warrant.

His preliminary hearing has not yet been scheduled.