“I died. I turned blue,” Rachel Reid, 28, of Bradford, told the crowd in District Judge Dominic Cercone’s courtroom on Wednesday.

Reid talked about how she overdosed on a heroin/butyryl fentanyl mix — twice — before then-boyfriend James Luper Jr., 44, of Erie, stopped letting her use it. Days after her own overdoses, 25-year-old George Duke Jr. was found dead from what prosecutors say was the same deadly mixture.

Reid, Luper and Larry Shroyer, 46, of Derrick City, are charged in Duke’s death.

Reid testified on Wednesday at a preliminary hearing for Luper and Shroyer after waiving her own hearing.

In exchange for her testimony, she has been offered a plea agreement with a recommended sentence of one to two years in state prison. She has not entered a plea yet, but she indicated the agreement calls for her to plead guilty to charges of distribution of a designer drug, possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance and recklessly endangering another person.

All three are currently charged with those counts plus aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, involuntary manslaughter, conspiracy to commit involuntary manslaughter and possession of a controlled substance. Shroyer is further charged in a second case with flight to avoid apprehension.

At the end of the hearing, District Judge Dominic Cercone bound all charges against Luper and Shroyer to McKean County Court.

During her candid testimony, she described how she and her housemates ran a drug operation out of 87½ High St. under Luper’s supervision.

“I never sold heroin until Mr. Luper came into my life,” said Reid. She noted that she had sold crack cocaine.

“It was either be with (Luper) or not have my drugs,” said Reid, who said she was not only his girlfriend, but also his employee of sorts.

She said she moved into 87½ High St. at the end of August/beginning of September in 2015. About two days after she moved in, Luper began selling heroin because his housemates were addicted to pills, and it was cheaper to buy heroin than pills.

She was living at the address with Luper, Charmaine Bliss and Kyle Dewyer. Luper would travel to Buffalo, N.Y., to get drugs to bring back to Bradford to sell.

Neither Bliss nor Dewyer have been charged in Duke’s death.

The drugs would be handed down from Luper to her, Bliss or Dewyer to sell, Reid explained.

The three would take shifts selling, and they would receive drugs in exchange for their work. She said Luper would have to package the substances for sale, and he would package his heroin in signature blue stamp bags.

During a prior interview with police, Reid was shown a photograph of blue stamp bags found at Duke’s residence after he died, and she agreed they matched the bags Luper used.

Shroyer was a regular customer at the High Street home, according to Reid, who said that in November 2015 he was coming to the house at least twice daily to purchase controlled substances. It was almost always her who sold to him. It was mid-November 2015 when Duke was found deceased at his home.

Luper was giving Shroyer a discounted price on heroin, she said.

Reid began to talk about her own overdoses after District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer asked her if she knew this batch of heroin was “particularly dangerous.”

“Yes,” Reid replied.

Reid explained later that she had stopped breathing, and one of her housemates gave her mouth-to-mouth to revive her. “They told me Luper was literally in tears,” she said.

She had also indicated that no law enforcement or medical professionals were ever called to the home for an overdose.

Shaffer asked why they kept selling it, knowing how dangerous it was.

“Money,” said Reid, adding that even though they kept selling it, Luper would not let her take anymore of that shipment.

When Duke died, Reid said she heard from Shroyer’s brother that Duke received the drugs he overdosed on from Shroyer. When Reid asked Shroyer if the drugs came from 87½ High St., he said no.

When asked about breaking up with Luper, she said they broke up before Luper went to state prison on other drug charges and indicated that she had tried to better herself when she was in prison.

“I know what I’m capable of. I know what I’m worth,” she said.

The only other person to testify was Bradford City Police Chief Chris Lucco.

Lucco was called to Duke’s home after he was found deceased. At the scene, investigators found a spoon with a small amount of residue, a needle with a cap next to it and three light blue stamp bags that matched Luper’s bags.

Duke’s cell phone showed that he and Shroyer were in contact with each other starting on Nov. 5, 2015, Lucco said.

Duke died of drug toxicity, Lucco said. Blood tests showed metabolites for the two drugs that contributed to his death — butyryl fentanyl and either heroin or morphine.

Also, Shroyer’s DNA was found on the stamp bags at Duke’s home, Lucco said.

In an interview with Bliss, she said Shroyer admitted giving Duke drugs “as if he was cool or important,” but he told her the drugs did not come from 87½ High St.

Lucco said a fellow state prison inmate of Luper’s, Michael Edwards, told police Luper admitted to him that he sold the drug mixture that killed Duke; Luper also told Edwards he “was mixing it hot” — meaning strong.

Regarding the other case against Shroyer, Lucco said he obtained a warrant for Shroyer on Nov. 10, and he talked to Shroyer, “giving him the courtesy of allowing him to turn himself in.” Shroyer said he needed “to go home and talk to my old lady,” and said he be back in a bit. Lucco never heard back.

After some investigation into Shroyer’s whereabouts, Lucco heard Shroyer was at a Looker Mountain Trail home. On Nov. 20, police went to the home, and a female answered the door. She admitted Shroyer was there.

While Shroyer did not come out of the home for a minute, “Ultimately, Mr. Shroyer came out without incident,” said Lucco.

In his final arguments, Luper’s attorney, Daniel Lang, asserted all charges against Luper “except for dealing drugs have to be dismissed,” as Luper was not even aware that drugs were being provided to Duke.

Similarly, Shroyer’s attorney, John Thomas, said there was no testimony indicating that Shroyer knew how strong the drug mixture was. He conceded the commonwealth presented a prima facie case for flight to avoid apprehension and possession of a controlled substance but asked the rest of the charges against Shroyer be dismissed.

“(Luper) was the top dog in a drug house,” Shaffer said in response, explaining that the law states he is responsible. “The law is you can’t be a top dog in a drug house and say the fifth dog down is on his own.”

Before stating his answer, Cercone noted there was “a lot of testimony here today” and it was an “intricate” case. He bound all the charges to McKean County Court.

Shroyer and Luper remain incarcerated in McKean County Jail, Shroyer on a total of $200,000 bail for the two cases, and Luper on $100,000 bail.

Reid was granted release Wednesday after her bail was lowered from $100,000 monetary bail to $10,000 unsecured bail.