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Enid man in roommate's overdose death

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Posted: 12/29/2012

 ENID, Okla. (AP) -- Prosecutors have filed manslaughter charges against an Enid man after his roommate died of a drug overdose.

Jeffrey Scott Vickers was charged with first-degree manslaughter in the death of Mark Doyle. The Enid News & Eagle reports that Doyle was found unresponsive Oct. 23, 2011, in the home he shared with Vickers.

Prosecutors allege that Vickers gave Doyle a narcotic painkiller that Vickers had bought on the street. An autopsy found that Doyle's cause of death was an accidental overdose of oxymorphine -- a painkiller.

Vickers faces a minimum of four years in prison if convicted. Online court records do not list an attorney for him.

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