Last Updated: 5:54 p.m.
A 21-year-old man who had bicycled into Belle Terre Park the previous day was found dead Wednesday morning, of an apparent drug overdose. The park is adjacent to Wadsworth Elementary school, but school is not in session this week.
The Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Calvin Alexander Stull, a resident of Westgrill Drive in Palm Coast who had been struggling with substance abuse for several years.
Stull was sitting at a park bench, his face and hands on the table, looking like someone who was having a rest: that’s what a lawn maintenance crew thought Stull was doing when the crew arrived at Wadsworth Elementary at 7 a.m., and got to work on the school’s grounds. It was only several hours later when a 56-year-old man at the park became concerned after noticing that Stull’s chest was not moving. He reported the matter to authorities.
Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene, as did the Palm Coast Fire Department and Flagler County Fire Rescue. The Real Trime Crime Center determined, through footage from surveillance cameras in the park, that Stull had cycled into the park at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
A sheriff’s deputy found Stull with a backpack on the table next to him, a piece of tin foil under his face, a lighter and a bottle of Mountain Dew next to him. A phone was in his hand. He had some white pills in his backpack, kept in a small bottle with no label, and had kept his wallet there. The deputy found a receipt for what may have been the man’s last meal: at McDonald’s.
A Florida identification card enabled the deputy to identify Stull. The agency withheld his identity until next-of-kin notification was made late Thursday afternoon.
A paramedic pronounced Calvin Alexander Stull deceased at 10 a.m. The Medical Examiner removed the body and transported it to St. Augustine for an autopsy. The Sheriff’s Office “is waiting on toxicology results, but initial cause of death appears to be a drug overdose,” a sheriff’s spokesperson said in a brief statement on the ongoing investigation.
Stull would have been familiar to authorities, having had numerous run-ins with the law in Flagler County since turning 18. He had been featured in a 2021 body cam video when a friend of his, Clayton Callahan, acting angrily then belligerently, then violently, reported that his and Stull’s belongings had been stolen by someone who drove off in an SUV. Stull is seen standing by as Callahan loses control of himself and is eventually arrested.
Duane says
When will this crap stop.
More lives are lost to drug overdoses unnecessarily.
starryid says
How many more drug overdose deaths will it take before Flagler County opens treatment centers for these troubled individuals? The funds have been allocated and approved but never utilized.
TR says
As sad as this is and all the other people that need treatment. A treatment center is only helpfull if the person with the addiction admit he or she has a problem and is willng to get treatment. 9 out of 10 people that have an addition to anything that is illegal will tell you they do not have a problem. Sometimes (like in this case) it’s to late to try and help them. I think people need to start paying attention to their loved ones with a drug addiction and try to help them ealier than later with conviencing them they need help. Unfortunately for this 21 year old it was too late.
Jonathan says
I knew this young man personally and I’ve talked to him about it and he’s cried to me about how he doesn’t know how to stop and I could only say that you have to want to I love Calvin like a brother I only wish I met him sooner
Samuel says
Very very sad and they will never know what scum bag dealer gave him the stuff that killed him.
Erod says
Samuel, are you kidding ? Guaranteed 5 minutes after a family notification was made the identity of the dealer was known. Whether or not that information was relayed to the police is unknown at this time.
The problem is not finding out who sells it, anybody in that “life” could tell you who’s dealing, the problem is will they ?
In this country nowadays we as a society are experiencing the societal amendments of our constitution championed by social media. Why has there been no challenges made to amendments of the constitution which have been perverted by activists, glory seeking attorneys and grandstanding politicians ? If drugs are so bad and people are sick and tired of the devastation it leaves in its wake, why haven’t the SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS launch a campaign to abolish the very rights that protect these “DEALERS OF DEATH” ?
Stop crying whenever another “existence” overdoes and demand action. The truth and the remedy have always been staring us as a society in the face, the problem is we as a society are more afraid of the truth than we are of the reality.
KD says
So the dealer is a scum bag, why is the dealer always blamed. Drug addicts are going to use no matter where they are. Are they not scum too?
Another one lost says
I love the idiots that are PRO drug dealer. The difference genius, is a drug dealer profits financially from another human beings misery.
Michelle Pardue says
Yes , the dealer is definitely a scum bag . If the shoe fits …
Drug dealers are out to make a profit from other peoples addictions and miseries and do NOT care if it’s hurting or killing their customer . So yes , they are scum
Anonymous says
That’s so sad. My prayers and condolences to this young man’s family. There are treatment centers in Flagler County, but what people don’t understand is that these treatment centers don’t do any good for an addict that is in denial. They can go to a treatment center, but if they don’t think they have a problem, then they’re back to doing drugs once they get out.
Bill says
Humanity is lost without knowing Jesus christ.the only cure is being born again john3-3 eternity is real heaven or hell
Laurel says
Bill: And Jesus has what to do with brain chemistry?