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Napa Mother Charged With Murder in Son’s Fentanyl Death, Father Faces Endangerment Charges

Evidence uncovered in a year-long multi-agency probe led to the mother’s detention without bail with the father’s bail set at $1 million ahead of arraignment.

A Napa mother is charged with murder after her 3-year-old son died of fentanyl poisoning. The boy’s father faces a felony child endangerment charge.
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Overview

  • Prosecutors filed murder and child endangerment charges against Belen Shroyer-Stephenson over her 3-year-old son’s fatal fentanyl intoxication.
  • Timothy Schultz was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment resulting in great bodily injury or death after investigators linked him to Zayden’s overdose.
  • A Napa County coroner’s forensic pathologist ruled that acute fentanyl intoxication caused Zayden Schultz’s death on August 15, 2024.
  • Sheriff Oscar Ortiz credited detectives, toxicology laboratories and allied agencies for building the evidence in a nearly year-long investigation.
  • The parents await arraignment, with Shroyer-Stephenson held without bail and Schultz’s bail set at $1 million.