A Winchester man was convicted on Wednesday of second-degree murder in the fentanyl-related death of 30-year-old Calin Sender.
Prosecutors said 39-year-old Quinn Aaron McKellips supplied Sender a lethal dose of fentanyl in January 2020. Evidence presented at trial showed that McKellips sold multiple types of narcotics to the Sender over several months.
On the evening of January 17, 2020, first responders found Sender deceased on the bedroom floor of his home. Deputies recovered a portion of an M30 pill on his dresser, as well as two whole pills in a dresser drawer. While M30s may appear similar to oxycodone, they are commonly illicitly manufactured pills pressed with fentanyl.
Text messages from the night before Sender’s death showed that McKellips offered to sell Sender three pills, or “supers” as McKellips referred to them. McKellips supplied Sender with the pills on the evening of January 16, 2020, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.
The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner determined Sender’s cause of death to be acute fentanyl intoxication.
On September 19, a court hearing will be held to set McKellips’ sentencing date.
