A month after his passing, Juice Wrld's cause of death is known: drug overdose. American rapper Jarad Anthony Higgins, stage name Juice Wrld, died at the age of 21 last December from a accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine, as reported by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office (Illinois, USA).
"The manner of death [of Higgins] it's an accident«, emphasize the authors of that document. Juice Wrld passed away last December after suffering from seizures at Chicago Midway Airport.
Causes of death of Juice Wrld: a very eventful trip
Juice Wrld's death took place on December 8, 2019. Alerted by the alleged presence of drugs and weapons on the plane, numerous police officers were waiting at Midway Airport, Chicago, the arrival of the private jet from California in which Juice Wrld and his entourage were traveling.
Specifically, the agents found three pistols and 31 kilograms of vacuum-packed marijuana in 41 vacuum cleaner bags and six bottles of codeine (cough syrup, the fashionable drug among some rappers millennial). Juice Wrld began to convulse while the police searched the luggage, came to ensure the New York Times. The rapper died shortly after.
Although the results of Juice Wrld's autopsy were inconclusive at first, requiring more tests, the American outlet TMZ (the first to report the news of Juice Wrld's death) went so far as to ensure that the rapper was seen ingesting numerous pills shortly before the authorities carried out the search. Although it was not known for sure, from the beginning all the rumors on the Internet suggested that the cause of JUICE WRLD's death was directly related to drug use.
Drugs in the music of Juice Wrld
As TMZ indicated at first, JUICE WRLD's cause of death was directly motivated by the ingestion of tablets of Percocet (or oxycodone, an opioid pain reliever that is highly potent and highly addictive). Juice Wrld has admitted (in interviews and songs) to having been a regular user of Percocet (among other drugs). In fact, they are a regular theme in many of his songs. Serve as an example these verses of Black & White:
I'm in my black Benz, uh
Doin' cocaine with my black friends, uh
We'll be high as hell before the night ends, yeah
We'll be high before the night ends
Before the night ends
Switch up to the white Benz, uh (Benz)
Doin' codeine with my white friends, uh (Friends)
In my black Benz
Doing cocaine with my black friends
We'll be high before the night is out, yeah
We'll be high before the night is through
Before the night is over
I switch to the white Benz
Doin' codeine with my white friends
And also Armed & Dangerous:
Sippin' lean, cliche, I still do it anyway
Red or purple in a cup, which one shall I pick today-ay-ay?
Sippin' hard, gun on me, no need for bodyguard
Sipping lean, cliche, I'll do it anyway
Red or purple in a glass, which one will I choose today?
Sippin' hard, I got the gun, I don't need a bodyguard
Autopsy results of Juice Wrld
Following Juice Wrld's death, the Cook County Medical Office announced that the 21-year-old's first autopsy examination was inconclusive and that More tests would be necessary to determine the causes of Juice Wrld's death. Specifically, tests were carried out in search of cardiac pathologies, neuropathologies, toxicology tests and histology (part of biology that studies the composition, structure and characteristics of the organic tissues of living beings). It was these tests that determined the causes of Juice Wrld's death.
worst landing imaginable
According to statements made by Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, Juice Wrld (real name Jarad A. Higgins) began to feel the first convulsions while the authorities in person at the airport searched the plane. Federal agents immediately supplied Juice Wrld with a dose of Narcan, a drug commonly used to resuscitate people suspected of having an opiate overdose.
Although the rapper was taken to the hospital by ambulance, Juice Wrld died at three in the morning. Two hours after he landed his private jet. The American media TMZ ensures which It was the pilot of the private jet himself who notified the authorities that it was loaded with drugs.
Police arrested two men identified as members of Juice Wrld's entourage security. Christopher Long, 36, and Henry Dean, 27, have been charged with illegal possession of weapons and ammunition. After Dean proved that he had a weapons license (and that the gun complied with all the relevant legal and administrative procedures), he was charged with the crime of possession of a firearm and ammunition at an airport (something strictly prohibited even if flying in private jet).