Getting your
Trinity Audioplayer ready...A Santa Rosa man is facing new charges in the fatal drug overdoses of two local teenagers after a Sonoma County judge ruled this month there was insufficient evidence for him to be tried on murder allegations prosecutors filed last year.
Sonoma County prosecutors presented two counts of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, June 25, against Ramon Nunez Galvan, 22, who was also arraigned on six drug-related felony counts upheld by Judge Lynnette Brown at the conclusion of a June 12 preliminary hearing. From here, Nunez’s defense attorney will need to decide if the new charges should be challenged and subjected to a motion for dismissal.
Nunez appeared before Judge Robert LaForge during a brief hearing Thursday and was ordered to return July 17 to enter a plea and begin the process of scheduling a jury trial.
The case arose early Feb. 22, 2025 when two girls — one 14, the other 16 at the time — were hospitalized after overdosing on drugs at an apartment on Klute Street in Santa Rosa.
Later that day, authorities were called to a home on Brookwood Avenue where Logan Camp, 18, and Gia Walsh, 16, were pronounced dead following a drug overdose. Camp was a senior at Montgomery High School and Walsh was a junior at Santa Rosa High.
During the preliminary hearing that began May 20, Kimi Verilhac, a Sonoma County forensic pathologist, testified she evaluated Camp and Walsh after their deaths and concluded both tested positive for a dangerous combination of fentanyl and cocaine intoxication.
At issue is whether Nunez was responsible for fentanyl getting into the cocaine. A prosecutor argued he understood the dangers of opioids but still prepared his cocaine sales with a scale that had also been used for fentanyl.
Nunez’s public defender said that was only a theory before Brown dismissed the murder counts. The judge concluded evidence and testimony did not illustrate implied malice on Nunez’s part.
She otherwise backed felony counts related to possessing narcotics and selling them to minors after both surviving teens testified Nunez sold them drugs on Feb. 21, 2025.
Investigators testified Nunez was identified through an Instagram account the teens used to acquire cocaine. Officers found Nunez on Santa Rosa Avenue the day after Camp and Walsh died. They searched his car and found a notebook investigators testified connected him to the teens, drugs, Narcan and plastic sealable bags similar to bags discovered at the teens’ homes.
You can reach Staff Writer Colin Atagi at colin.atagi@pressdemocrat.com.