Michael K. Williams’ nephew on shock of finding his body: ‘He’s gone. He’s cold’
nypost.comDupont tells hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Jada’s mother, Adrienne Banfield Norris, that he hadn’t heard from “The Wire” actor on that September day and decided to go to his house to check on him. “I went upstairs, opened up his door, it was quiet.
Michael always played music. That wasn’t the case,” Dupont recalled. “I stuck my head in and said, ‘Uncle Mike, are you in here?’ And I observed him… deceased.
I immediately called 911 and they said, ‘Listen, do you want to start some compressions?’ And I said, ‘I’m telling you … he’s deceased.
He’s gone. He’s cold,” Dupont said.In September, the New York City medical examiner confirmed Williams died of an accidental drug overdose.Williams’ cause of death was acute intoxication from a deadly mix of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said.Four men remain behind bars in New York City for allegedly selling the actor fentanyl-laced heroin.
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