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Rapper, Juice WRLD died of an accidental opioid overdose, Chicago’s medical examiner said on Wednesday.

This report is coming one month after the rising artist suffered a seizure at one of the city’s airports.


“The manner of his death is an accident,” the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said of the December 8th death of the 21-year-old, who was born Jarad Higgins.

“The Office determined that Higgins died as a result of oxycodone and codeine toxicity”, powerful painkillers in the same drug family as morphine and heroin.

Authorities reportedly had been waiting for the artist’s private plane to land at Midway International Airport on suspicion he had contraband. They discovered drugs, guns, and ammunition.

When the rapper began “convulsing” an FBI agent administered two doses of Narcan — an emergency treatment when an opioid overdose is suspected — which awoke him though he remained incoherent, according to The Chicago Tribune newspaper.
The musician was pronounced dead at 3:14 am at a nearby hospital, approximately an hour after the plane landed.


AFP