When the Medical Examiner’s Office released the body of 25-year-old Joseph Patterson to his mother Lisa Hicks, arrangements were made to take her son to a funeral home. “I had no clue what fentanyl was until Joe was killed,” Hicks of Gwinnett County told The Times in a recent interview. Gainesville Police said Patterson was sold pills containing fentanyl made to look like milder oxycodone by his friend Casey Trichel, who is serving time in prison in a 30-year sentence after accepting a plea deal over his friend’s death.