Tennessee Letters for First First Lady Maria Lee

Dear First Lady Maria Lee,
My name is Stephanie Fisher, and Daniel Fisher was my first-born son. He was a country boy
who loved to fish, ride through the mountains, play basketball and had a passion for animals of
all kinds. Daniel started working part time in high school at Staples but had plans of going to
school to be an electrician.
He was engaged to be married to his high school sweetheart in two weeks on the beach in
Destin, Florida. She was expecting their first baby. She was four months pregnant at the time
that he was poisoned. Daniel would never know he was having a little girl, but he held that first
ultrasound picture of Lilly in his billfold proudly. On one side was his baby, and on the other side
was a picture of his beautiful bride to be.
Daniel had been involved in a fender bender that day. I will never know who sold him the fake
oxycodone that turned out to be fentanyl. The detective told me that because he wasn't stabbed
or shot, they couldn't really charge anyone for poisoning him because he asked for it. “You play,
you pay”! My son was a good boy, and he never asked for fentanyl poison.
Regardless of anyone's judgement on him from an outsider, I knew my son better than anyone.
What haunts me even more than not getting justice for him is knowing that the person who killed
him was free to kill many more. Our lives have been forever changed, turned inside out, upside
down, and shaken to the core. I will spend the rest of my life trying to warn others about fentanyl
poisonings.
Please help us memorialize our lost loved ones with a Memorial Wall.
Thank you,
Stephanie Fisher – Daniel’s mom; forever 21
Chattanooga, Tennessee