Jessie Davis, who lives in an apartment next to the building in the Overtown area of Miami where 10-year-old Alton Banks had lived, speaks during an interview. Davis said her grandchildren, ages 8, 9 and 10, regularly make the same walk he did to the nearby park with a swimming pool. She said she initially thought the pool water made Alton sick and was shocked by news reports that he had been exposed to fentanyl. “Where would a 10-year-old baby get something like that?” Davis said. (AP Photo/Mario Houben)
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