Heather Shelton said Brian Epperson, who faces charges in connection to the overdose deaths of two Kentucky women, tried to kill her months after her friend’s death.

The body was in an "advanced state" of decomposition.

It's part of the Jeffersontown Police Department's REACH Unit, which works to reduce the number of fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses in the city.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter.