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Zachary Gontard
Third-degree murder (controlled-substance distribution causing death); pleaded to second-degree manslaughter
- Defendant
- Zachary Gontard
- Reddit role
- user
- Charge
- Third-degree murder (controlled-substance distribution causing death); pleaded to second-degree manslaughter
- Jurisdiction
- Hennepin County District Court, Minnesota
- Date
- 2018
- Sentence
- 1 year in the county workhouse (after plea to second-degree manslaughter)
- Subreddit
- r/opiaterollcall
Summary
Zachary Gontard arranged a heroin sale through the Reddit board r/opiaterollcall, responding to a post by the buyer. The buyer died of combined heroin and fentanyl toxicity, and Gontard was charged with third-degree murder in Hennepin County, Minnesota, after investigators linked the two through Reddit comments found on the buyer's phone. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to one year in the county workhouse; a co-defendant received a longer term.