Second person dies after designer drug party

Andrew Steven Akerman, of Konawa, who had been in critical condition since he was taken to the hospital May 7, died Friday from apparent drug toxicity. Authorities say the young people had taken the designer drug 2C-E.

 
BY ANN KELLEY akelley@opubco.com | Published: May 14, 2011   

photo - PARTY / DRUG OVERDOSE / DEATH: EXTERIOR / DRUG OVERDOSE / HOUSE EXTERIOR: House on heavily wooded acreage that sits off the road on SH 9A about eight miles north of Konowa where partygoers overdosed Saturday, May 7, 2011, on a designer drug similar to ecstacy, sending several people to the hospital and killing one girl. This photo taken Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman ORG XMIT: KOD
PARTY / DRUG OVERDOSE / DEATH: EXTERIOR / DRUG OVERDOSE / HOUSE EXTERIOR: House on heavily wooded acreage that sits off the road on SH 9A about eight miles north of Konowa where partygoers overdosed Saturday, May 7, 2011, on a designer drug similar to ecstacy, sending several people to the hospital and killing one girl. This photo taken Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman ORG XMIT: KOD

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Pottawatomie County officials say Akerman is a 2008 Drug Court graduate, which expunged his record of a minor drug charge.

Jewell was a student at East Central University with plans to teach art to children.

More than 250 people attended her funeral Thursday in Ada. Among them were college professors and disabled children she introduced to art.

Her brother said Jewell's friends collected money among themselves to buy an airplane ticket so he could be there.

Rock songs she loved were played at the funeral, and friends replicated her paintings and drawings on her coffin.

“Her funeral was unique, but so was she,” said her mother, Lida Beckman.

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