Palm City woman dies after being taken to hospital for possible overdose, deputies said

MARTIN COUNTY — Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating the death of a Palm City woman who was dropped off at Martin Hospital South in Stuart in March, records released Wednesday showed.

Nikki Hutchinson Krueger, 42, of the 1600 block of Southwest Thelma Street, Palm City, died 25 minutes after a man dropped her off at the emergency room.

Deputies said she was brought to the hospital at 12:51 p.m. March 21 and died at 1:16 p.m.

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Officials said emergency room personnel treated the woman for an overdose of an unknown substance, but were not able to save her life.

Detectives are investigating the incident, and a cause of death has not been determined.

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