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Michael K. Williams Cause Of Death Ruled Overdose, Fentanyl Involved
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty The culture lost a true legend with the sudden passing of Michael K. Williams. Sadly, the medical examiner’s office has determined that the renowned actor’s cause of death was an accidental overdose. As many speculated and feared, fentanyl was found among the assortment narcotics in Williams’ system at the time of his passing. CNN reports that the New York City Medical Examiner’s Officer determined that the Brooklyn native died from “acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine.” Even before the determination, the NYPD was investigating his death an overdose and has said they are trying to find the drug dealer who supplied Williams. Fentanyl is a powerful opioid and is often mixe...
Lamar Odom Says He Was Possibly Drugged The Night He Overdosed
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: via UNCENSORED / TV One Lamar Odom says one of his worst nights is wasn’t completely his doing. He claims he was possibly drugged the night of his overdose. As spotted on Buzzfeed News the former NBA power forward is now speaking openly about the evening where he almost lost his life. But to hear him tell it someone might have slipped him something that impaired him. In a recent interview with Addiction Talk he detailed that faithful day. “I didn’t take anything that night,” he said during the Facebook live Q&A. “I was really hurt and almost in some sense afraid because somebody just tried to take my life.” He went on to theorize that God spared his life because he didn’t get high. In a previous interview with The View he spoke more in-depth about the...
Bobby Brown Sr. Demands Justice After Toxicology Report Triggers Investigation of Son’s Death
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Tran / Getty R&B legend Bobby Brown is demanding justice after the toxicology report from his son, Bobby Brown Jr.’s, death triggers an investigation. According to TMZ, the LAPD began looking at the death of Brown’s son as a possible crime from the beginning due to narcotics being involved, specifically Percocet and cocaine. Officers state that during the course of their investigation, one of the dealers supplying drugs to the younger Brown shortly before his body was found. The gossip site reports that the investigation was triggered by police noticing an increase in illegal street drugs bring cut with fentanyl — which is cheap and easily hooks users–a fact that was confirmed in the toxicology report for Bobby Brown Jr, which revealed th...
