RIVERSIDE – A Winchester man was convicted today of second-degree murder in the fentanyl-related death of 30-year-old Calin Sender.

Quinn Aaron McKellips, DOB: 06-20-1986, supplied a lethal dose of fentanyl to Sender in Jan. 2020. Evidence presented at trial showed that McKellips sold multiple types of narcotics to the victim over several months. 

First responders were called to Sender’s home on the evening of Jan. 17, 2020, where they found him deceased on his bedroom floor. Deputies recovered a portion of an M30 pill on Sender’s dresser, as well as two whole pills in a dresser drawer. While M30s may appear similar to oxycodone, they are commonly illicitly manufactured pills pressed with fentanyl. 

Text messages from the night before Sender’s death showed that McKellips offered to sell Sender three pills, or “supers” as McKellips referred to them. McKellips supplied Sender with the pills on the evening of Jan. 16, 2020. 

The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner determined Sender’s cause of death to be acute fentanyl intoxication. 

On Sept. 19 the court will hold a hearing to set McKellips’ sentencing date. 

The case, SWF2301384, was prosecuted by Deputy DA Jerry Pfohl of the Homicide Division. 

Additional information about the fentanyl epidemic and prosecutions in Riverside County is available at: rivcoda.org/dangers-fentanyl and facesoffentanyl.net/.