GAYLORD, MI -- "This is final, we're going to get to see her one more time, and then we have to say goodbye to her forever,” said Bill and Amber Checks.
The parents of a Gaylord teen who died over the weekend are speaking out.
They say drugs may have lead to their daughter's death.
18-year-old Aubrey Checks died New Year's Day and left behind an eight-month old daughter.
Two Gaylord men are charged for delivering heroin -- the drug Checks' parents believe killed her.
Investigators say 21-year old Konrad Pressley and 31-year old Anthony Beaty were arrested with a large amount of heroin at their home New Year’s Day.
Checks' death is what led police to the men.
"It’s absolutely devastating, there's no words to describe, it's heartbreaking, it's so senseless we cannot find one little thing that even makes a little sense in all of this," said Bill and Amber Checks.
Bill and Amber Checks are speaking about their daughter's death. Aubrey Checks died New Year's Day. Aubrey's parents say she wasn't addicted to drugs.
"I believe this was the first time she ever touched them," said Aubrey’s father Bill.
But what may have been the first time would also prove to be the last. While police investigated the suspicious death, they arrested two men. Konrad Pressley had a connection to Aubrey; he was her boyfriend and her baby's father. The family says he had a previous felony drug conviction, and they wanted to get him help, but to no avail.
"Not sure why all of a sudden why heroin's become a big issue, but it has definitely increased," said Gaylord Police Chief Joe Fitzgerald.
In the past two to three years, Gaylord Police Chief Joe Fitzgerald says heroin is becoming more popular. He says with the arrest of the men, a large amount has been taken off the streets.
"Look at what you're doing to yourself, look at what you're putting in your body, it's going to kill you," said Misty Heidman, wife of Dave Heidman, an overdose victim.
But the problem seems far from over. On October 10th of last year, Misty Heidman lost her husband and her six kids lost their father to Heroin overdose.
“When you see it coming and there's nothing you can do to stop it, you can talk to him, you can beg, you can plead, and he knew he had a problem, he admitted," said Heidman.
In less than a three month span, two lives were lost, one to an overdose, another to possibly the same thing.
“Too late, absolutely too late for my daughter, but maybe not for somebody else," said Bill and Amber Checks.