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Midwest Medical Examiner reports rise in homicides, highlights fentanyl and unsafe-sleep infant deaths
Summary
Dr. Quinn Piper of the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office presented annual statistics to the Anoka County Board on May 27, 2025, reporting a recent rise in homicides, fentanyl as the most common drug in overdose deaths, and four infant deaths linked to unsafe sleep.
Dr. Quinn Piper, medical examiner for the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office (MMEO), told the Anoka County Board on May 27 that the office received 1,850 death reports from Anoka County last year and performed 346 autopsies.
“The office investigated over or had over 10,000 deaths reported to us from all of our jurisdictions and partners, and then we performed almost 1,300 autopsies, last year,” Piper said, summarizing MMEO caseloads across its service area.
Piper said the county saw a peak in homicides…
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