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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

KONAWA — The designer drug that killed an East Central University student has taken another life.

Andrew Steven Akerman, 22, of Konawa, died Friday morning after a week in a medically induced coma. Akerman was one of eight people who took the drug 2C-E at a party on May 7. His girlfriend, Anastasia “Stacy” Jewell, 22, of Ada died that night from the same drug.

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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Akerman was a computer science student at East Central University, and a computer technician intern at Finley & Cook accounting firm in Shawnee. His mother is a longtime employee at the firm.

“A lot of us have known him since he was a baby and watched him grow up,” Finley & Cook owner Richard Finley said earlier this week. “Their family is in our prayers.”

Finley called Akerman “a bright young man.”

Cody Weddle, 20, is jailed without bail on complaints of drug distribution and murder in connection with Jewell's death.

District Attorney Chris Ross said he plans to formally charge Weddle on Tuesday and will consider this weekend how Akerman's death will play into those charges.

Weddle bought the synthetic drug 2C-E on the Internet and shared it with Jewell and Akerman to sell at the party north of Konawa, according to a court affidavit. Six others at the party were hospitalized after the drug caused severe vomiting and seizures, but they have recovered.

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