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On Friday night, Rodney and Synthia Myers made an awful discovery.
Their 17-year-old son, Kyle, was unconscious on the laundry room floor. He wasn't breathing.
"We noticed his fingertips were purple, his face was purple," said Rodney Myers. "I started CPR on him, but they told me it didn't matter...he was already dead."
Police say the Myers found a fentanyl pain patch in their son's mouth.
Fentanyl is an extremely powerful painkiller. It's used in patch form, so the medicine can be delivered over a 3-day period. Ingesting the patch orally will release all of the medicine at one time. It's believed Kyle took two patches orally on Friday.
Police say the Myers told them where their son bought the patches. They implicated a Mt. Holly Springs woman. That woman's apartment was searched, but she has not yet been charged with a crime.
According to court documents, Rodney Myers told police he drove his son to the woman's house, because Kyle said she owed him money. Rodney Myers told police he saw the patches in his son's pocket. He said his son told him they were muscle patches, designed to relieve back pain.
Court records indicate Kyle consumed the patches in front of his parents. His mother tried to take at least one of the patches away from him, but he locked himself in a bathroom.
Kyle's sister reportedly told police her brother traded two Oxycontin tablets, and ten dollars cash for the prescription patches. According to the search warrant, she had begged the woman not to sell the patches to her brother on Friday.
"If you're doing drugs, stop," said Synthia Myers. "Just stop...it's not worth it."
District Attorney Dave Freed says it's possible to track each individual fentanyl patch. He says investigators will track both of the patches consumed by Myers.
"How did a fentanyl patch get from the manufacturer into the hands of a 17-year-old who then ingested it and died?" Freed said. "That's an important story to know."
Freed says anyone that can be linked to those particular patches could face federal charges.
"Nobody around here should make a mistake, there's a problem with abuse of prescription drugs," Freed said. "Everybody needs to open their eyes to it."
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