Overview

• On June 4, 2025, a Tarrant County jury found 48-year-old Jacob Lindsay guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison for delivering fentanyl that led to Brandon Harrison’s overdose death.
• The conviction is the inaugural use of the law enacted on September 1, 2023, which classifies fatal fentanyl distribution as murder under Texas statute.
• Prosecutors showed that Harrison, 26, died in Fort Worth on September 18, 2023, after ingesting fentanyl and methamphetamine traced to Lindsay’s delivery.
• District Attorney Phil Sorrells said the sentence makes clear that anyone who supplies fentanyl causing a death will face murder charges.
• Brandon Harrison’s father, Richard, praised the life term as a deterrent and pointed to a previous case where a 19-year-old Azle man received 19 years on similar charges.