COOLIO. The sudden and unexpected death of 59-year-old American rapper Coolio has led to the opening of an investigation, but already it seems that a cardiac arrest has been mentioned.
[Mis à jour le 29 septembre 2022 à 23h15] “We are saddened by the loss of our dear friend and client, Coolio, who passed away on Wednesday afternoon. He marked the world with his talent and will be deeply missed,” said the interpreter’s manager. Gangsta’s Paradise to the tabloid TMZ. Thursday, September 29, the sudden announcement of the death of American rapper Coolio, just 59 years old, aroused shock and questions.
According to Coolio’s longtime friend and manager, Jarez Posey, which TMZ notably echoed, the Grammy Award-winning musician was visiting a friend on Wednesday, September 28, late afternoon. noon, in Los Angeles, when his death would have occurred. Having gone to the toilets, Coolio would have been slow to return. Worried, his friend would then have called the rapper several times. Failing to have obtained a return, he would have finally entered the bathroom. There, he would have found Coolio unconscious on the ground. Alerted, the emergency services could not do anything other than to note his death. According to a medical source interviewed by the American site, the emergency services believe that the rapper may have suffered a “cardiac arrest”.
An autopsy and a toxicology test to determine the causes of Coolio’s death
What happened ? What are the circumstances of rapper Coolio’s death? An investigation, opened after this brutal death, must determine the circumstances of Coolio’s death. According to the first elements reported by the American media, no drugs or narcotic “consumption equipment” were found at the place of the rapper’s death. Also, for lack of elements going in this direction, the criminal track is, at this stage, dismissed by the investigators. An autopsy will be performed on the body of the victim, as well as a toxicological test to try to shed light on the reasons for this sudden death.
If the issue of drugs arises in the media, it’s because Coolio has a history of drug use. In 2009, the rapper was arrested and then charged with drug possession by the Los Angeles prosecutor’s office. At the time, he was arrested at the international airport of the City of Angels with, in his luggage, cocaine. He then risked up to three years in prison.