Fort Worth man faces murder charge in woman’s fentanyl overdose death

A 49-year-old Fort Worth man was arrested on Friday, July 25, on suspicion of murder in connection with an April drug overdose death, police said.

Donovan Bookman is facing a murder charge after the fentanyl overdose death of Alysha Ann Peaster, 33, according to Fort Worth police.

On April 4, Fort Worth officers responded to a call in the 3000 block of Laredo Drive in west Fort Worth. Police found Peaster unresponsive, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her cause of death was ruled as bromazolam and fentanyl toxicity, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Narcotics Division detectives linked Bookman to Peaster’s death and obtained an arrest warrant, police said.

Peaster was born in Fort Worth and graduated from Arlington Heights High School in 2008, according to her obituary.

She worked in the food industry and was a mother of two young children, her obituary states. “They were the light in her world. She loved them unconditionally.”

Peaster wanted to move to Colorado, her obituary says. Her family, including her parents and older brother, scattered her ashes there.