MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A woman has been charged with negligent manslaughter after a man was found dead in a home in the Micanopy area, officials said.
Marion County Fire Rescue responded to a cardiac arrest call Saturday and found Lillian Patterson, 19, and several small children inside.
During their investigation, officials found Xavier Collins, 19, deceased inside the home. Patterson initially claimed that Collins had become unresponsive after stumbling out of the bedroom.
Investigators later found that Collins sustained a traumatic injury to the upper left chest. Patterson told investigators that Collins had fallen onto a knife held by one of the children in the home.