Convict Charged With Drug-Induced Homicide For College Student’s 2013 Heroin Death

A convict locked up in a Downstate prison was charged with drug-induced homicide in connection with a college student’s 2013 heroin overdose.

Troy Dunham, 23, has been locked up in Pinckneyville Correctional Center since March.

In February 2014, Dunham was arrested for the possession of heroin with the intent to deliver. The Bolingbrook man spent seven months in jail before he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation.

Dunham’s probation was revoked after he tested positive for pot five times between October and January.

Dunham’s projected release from prison is in July.

Five months before he was arrested, Dunham provided heroin to 21-year-old Connor Kelly of Naperville and Kelly died, according to a criminal indictment filed in Will County court.

Kelly’s obituary said he graduated from Neuqua Valley High School in 2010 and was a student at the College of DuPage.

Kelly also worked at a Naperville Jiffy Lube and was a member of Holy Spirit Catholic Community in Naperville, the obituary said.

Dunham’s bond was set at $1 million.

photo via Illinois Department of Corrections