A Pittsburgh woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges connected to the fatal fentanyl poisoning of a 7-month-old Penn Hills infant.

Barbara Ann Dunlap-Toombs, 66, of the city’s Larimer neighborhood, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering another person in the Jan. 14 death of her granddaughter, Zhuri Bogle.

Dunlap-Toombs, the second person charged in the infant’s death, is scheduled to be arraigned in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court on Aug. 8, court records show. She has been out of Allegheny County Jail since posting $25,000 bail in May.

Court records did not list an attorney for Dunlap-Toombs.

On April 14, police charged David Dwayne Poindexter, 58, of Elliott, the grandmother’s friend, with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment. His non-jury trial is set to start Sept. 13 in front of Judge Jill E. Rangos. He remains in county jail.

Zhuri died of acute fentanyl toxicity earlier this year at her home, the medical examiner said.

Penn Hills police and paramedics responded to the 8100 block of Chaske Street around 6:45 a.m. that day, after the infant was reported to be unresponsive.

Upon arrival, first responders found Zhuri’s father performing CPR. First responders took over. At 7:05 a.m., the girl was pronounced dead at the scene, county police said.

Police said Zhuri had been in the care of her grandmother and Poindexter the previous night. She had already been put to bed when her parents arrived home on the evening of Jan. 13, police said.

During Zhuri’s autopsy, a small square packet, which appeared to be a baggie with the word “Machine” printed on the front, was recovered from the baby’s throat, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.

The baggie tested positive for fentanyl, police said.

On the day he watched Zhuri with her grandmother, Poindexter had purchased 10 stamp bags of heroin that contained fentanyl, police said. Poindexter admitted he snorted one of the bags before going to the house to meet Dunlap-Toombs. The rest of the bags were in a plastic bag in his pocket.

Poindexter said that he snorted one or two bags of heroin out of his hand while at the house, the complaint said.

It remains unclear how the infant got one of the stamp bags.

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