WAUSAU — The 28-year-old man who died early Saturday after an apparent heroin overdose has been identified as Ryan L. McClinton of Wausau.

Police say McClinton died after shooting about a tenth of a gram of heroin at the home of a friend, 28-year-old Riley Weinkauf of Wausau. Weinkauf is one of three people arrested in connection with the death.

Police were called shortly before midnight Friday to a home at 6860 Hwy. W. in Wausau for a report of a man who was lying unresponsive on the floor, according to the police report. When deputies from the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department arrived, they immediately began CPR. Lifesaving attempts continued when rescue crews from the Wausau Fire Department arrived, but were not successful. McClinton was pronounced dead at the scene.

Weinkauf told police he and McClinton split a dose of heroin Weinkauf purchased from 37-year-old Tonya Muzynoski, who had gotten the heroin from 51-year-old Shabaka Nubian-Yl, according to the police report.

Investigators then searched the Weston home Muzynoski and Nubian-Yl shared and found 33.78 grams of packaged heroin and more than $10,000 in cash. The two also had 14.74 grams of packaged heroin in their possession at the time of their arrest during a traffic stop in the town of Rib Mountain, police said. In total, detectives seized 960 doses of heroin worth an estimated street value of $24,000.00 during the investigation, according to a news release issued Monday.

Muzynoski said she and Nubian-Yl traveled to Chicago one or two times each week to buy up to 100 grams of heroin for resale in the Wausau area, according to the police report.

Before the traffic stop, Nubial-Yl told Muzynoski to hide the heroin inside her body, according to Muzynoski’s statement to police. While being interviewed, one of the bags containing about 7.44 grams of heroin began to leak, prompting police to call for an ambulance. The heroin was removed before Muzynoski overdosed, police said.

Police said the heroin could have been laced with a stronger drug, such as Fentanyl. When interviewed, Nubian-Yl told police, “These (expletive) all complain about weak-ass dope and then I serve them good strong dope and they die,” according to the police report.

Nubian-Yl told police he is “not a bad guy” and that he sympathizes with heroin addicts.

Nubian-Yl and Muzynoski both face charges of first degree reckless homicide by delivery of drugs, possession of heroin with intent to deliver and maintaining a drug trafficking place. Nubian-Yl is being held in the Marathon County Jail on a $1 million bond, while bond has been set for Muzynoski at $500,000, according to court records.

Weinkauf faces charges of first degree reckless homicide by delivery of drugs and maintaining a drug trafficking place. He is being held on a $250,000 cash bond.

All three suspects are due in court Sept. 30.

McClinton, a 2007 Wausau East High School graduate, would have celebrated his 29th birthday on Aug. 28.