$2 million bond for Bellwood man charged in Addison heroin death

A $2 million bond was set Saturday for a Bellwood man accused of supplying heroin to an Addison woman who later died of a heroin overdose, according to the DuPage County state's attorney's office and Addison police.

Kyle Kirkendall, 34, of the 100 block of 48th Avenue, appeared before Judge Robert Douglas, who set the bond. He has been charged with one count of drug-induced homicide, a Class X felony, involving the death of Samantha Hundley, 25, of Addision, of a heroin overdose.

Kirkendall, who must post 10 percent of the bond to be released from jail, is scheduled for arraignment before Judge Brian Telander on Aug. 17.

On June 18 around 3 p.m., Addison police responded to a 911 call in the 600 block of South Harvard Avenue. Police discovered the woman unconscious in the bathroom. The woman was transported to an area hospital, where she died June 23 from what was determined to be a heroin overdose.

Police said that the woman met Kirkendall in Bellwood earlier that morning and he supplied her with the heroin she later ingested at the Harvard street address.

Kirkendall was taken into custody Friday without incident, police said.

"This is a very sad case of a young woman who lost her life to heroin," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a news release. "To successfully eradicate our streets from this indiscriminate killer, we must not only educate the public about the potentially deadly consequences of heroin use, as we have done, we must also send a message to these poison peddlers that there is a price to pay for their actions and that price could be up to 30 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections."