Heartbreaking Search for Justice: Community Remembers Five-Year-Old Damien Coats, Lost to Fentanyl
Apache Junction, Arizona — Lieutenant Thomas Parker reflects on the potential life of a little boy named Damien Coats, who would have turned 5 this year. Parker, who oversees the investigations at the Apache Junction Police Department, finds himself grieving not just for a life lost but for the absence of justice in a case that many believe should have led to accountability. Damien died at the age of 3 in January 2023 due to …