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Two Santa Rosa high school students have died after allegedly overdosing on fentanyl, Santa Rosa police said. Two other students remain hospitalized after also allegedly overdosing on fentanyl in a separate incident Saturday.

A former student, a 19-year-old, is believed to have also died from drugs. However, officials said they don’t believe the cases are related.

The backstory:

Santa Rosa authorities were first alerted around 5:15 a.m. Saturday about a suspected fentanyl overdose involving 14 and 16-year-old girls. Those girls were taken to a hospital.

Later in the day around 8:15 p.m., officers visited a home in the 2100 block on Brookwood Drive after a friend contacted police when she came across two teens lying unresponsive in bed.

Officials said the friend let herself inside the home when no one answered the door, and found the unconscious 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy.

Medics rushed to the scene, but the teens were …

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