Wichita woman accused of killing her 2-year-old with methadone has court hearing

Update: The hearing has been continued till Monday.

Kimberly Compass, who is accused of killing her 2-year-old son at a Wichita motel in May, has a hearing Friday afternoon.

Zayden JayNesahkluah died May 31 in a room at the Sunset Motel on south Broadway where he was staying with his mother, 23-year-old Kimberly Compass. Officers arrested Compass on Aug. 15 based on information the Wichita Police Department received from the Sedgwick County Regional Forensic Science Center about how the boy died.

The regional forensic science center autopsy report says Zayden’s blood tested positive for methadone at a rate of .82 milligram per liter in blood drawn from a femoral vein and .50 milligram per liter in blood drawn from his heart.

But it says that “due to uncertainty regarding the details of how the decedent (Zayden) obtained methadone, the manner of death is undetermined.”

Updates will be available shortly after the hearing.

This story was originally published December 6, 2019 at 2:40 PM.