Two Rochester parents are accused of being high on heroin with their baby in the car when they were involved in a crash in Interstate 79, police said. The incident was reported Wednesday around 7 p.m. in Jackson Township. Police said Emily Shontz lost control of the car when she noticed her boyfriend, Nathan McKee, had stopped breathing while seated in the passenger seat. Investigators said the car veered off the highway and crashed into the grassy median. When police arrived, they said Shontz was slurring and glassy-eyed and McKee was not breathing. Medics revived McKee with Narcan. The couple’s 1-year-old baby, who was in the backseat, was not injured.
State police said the couple admitted to using heroin right before they got in the car with their child and headed to the interstate. The couple lives in Rochester, and police said it’s not clear what they were doing in Butler County. Both are charged with child endangerment, and the baby is staying with family, police said