By Fox23.com News Staff
TULSA, Okla. — One woman has been arrested and charged for the murder of her two-year-old child, Tulsa Police reported.
According to police, Markeasha Norman was arrested and charged with second degree murder for the death of her two-year-old child after the child was exposed to fentanyl.
Police said on May 14, 2026, around 1:50 p.m., officers were dispatched to an apartment near Archer Street and Sheridan Road. They were responding to a call for a two-year-old boy in cardiac arrest.
Markeasha Norman, 25, told police she woke up and found her son unresponsive. She said she tried to administer Narcan to her son because he may have been exposed to fentanyl.
The child was taken to the hospital by paramedics where he later passed. A blood test proved that he had indeed been exposed to fentanyl.
Police said Norman admitted to using fentanyl and said when she found her son unresponsive, she noticed drug paraphernalia inside of her purse had been messed with.
Officers executed a search warrant in her apartment and found items used to smoke fentanyl. Detectives discovered Norman had been using the drug all night the evening the child died. She reportedly fell asleep after using and the container of her fentanyl was next to her son when she found him.
On June 3, the Tulsa Police Fugitive Warrant Unit found Norman at a house near 78th Street and South 85th East Avenue. She surrendered after 20 minutes of commands from officers and was taken into custody.
Norman was arrested and booked into the Tulsa County Jail for second degree murder by Tulsa Police.
