2023-07-26 14:54:00
DEATH OF MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS. Michael Kenneth Williams, actor best known for playing Omar on The Wire, died of an overdose on September 6, 2021. A 71-year-old trafficker has been convicted of aiding and abetting possession and distribution of narcotics.
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[Mis à jour le 26 juillet 2023 à 14h54] Two years after the overdose death of Michael K. Williams, a man has been convicted in connection with this case. Aged 71, Carlos Macci was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, accompanied by three years of parole, including one in a rehab center, on July 25, 2023. If he was not charged for the death of the actor, unforgettable in The Wire, he pleaded guilty to complicity in the possession and distribution of narcotics.
Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, at the age of 54, from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine. Four drug traffickers have been arrested as part of the investigation following his death, including Carlos Macci.
During the hearing, relatives of the actor called for clemency from the jurors. The actor’s nephew said he was convinced that Carlos Macci could change the course of his life, saying “to understand what it is to be a victim of the system”. For his part, the co-creator of the series The Wire, David Simon, had written a letter to the justice to remind that Michael K. Williams himself opposed mass incarceration, and that the comedian was also partly responsible for his death.
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Born in 1966 in Brooklyn, son of a mother from Nassau in the Bahamas and a father from South Carolina, Michal K. Williams became known in the series The Wire, broadcast in 5 seasons between 2002 and 2008 She recounts the daily life of groups of drug traffickers from the poor neighborhoods of Baltimore. Brought to the screen by writer and journalist David Simon, the series quickly built up a large group of fans and almost immediately received critical acclaim for its social and political dimensions. By playing Omar, a homosexual and atypical gangster, Michael K. Williams will have been able to make a name and a reputation that will make him a regular in the roles of petty or major offender.
He also played the role of a smuggler in full prohibition in “Boardwalk Empire, or that of a powerful inmate in the famous New York prison of Rikers Island, in The Night Of. But he also made several appearances in the cinema , as in Twelve Years as a Slave by Steve McQueen or Gone Baby Gone by Ben Affleck. Recognizable by the long gash that crossed his face, Michael K. Williams also appeared in The Road, Ghostbusters, Assassin’s Creed or Brooklyn Affairs.
Where did the scar on Michal K. Williams’ face come from?
One of Michal K. Williams’ trademarks was his facial scar. It was the result of a fight that took place outside a bar on his 25th birthday. This one would have failed to kill him report the various biographies which abound on the Web. According to Michal K. Williams himself, this scar was a blessing in launching his acting career. She first allowed him to appear in music videos and build a profile as a thug in television series.
It was The New York Post that first reported the death of Michael K. Williams in the United States on September 6, 2021. Quickly, the overdose thesis was accepted in the media and by investigators. The actor was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment after a relative hadn’t heard from him for a few days and went to see him. Equipment used for the use of narcotics was “on a table nearby”, reinforcing the thesis of the overdose. It was later concluded that the actor died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.
Michael K. Williams was known for his addiction problems, on which he had already confided in the press. While the issue of drugs and trafficking is central to the series The Wire which devoted it, Michael K. Williams had notably explained in 2016 to the American radio NPR how he himself was trying to fight against this old demon at the time.
And local media of New Jersey goes into detail about this addiction, indicating that Michael K. Williams had a difficult time when he was doing drugs “in scary places with scary people”. Using cocaine and weed, Williams later explained about those difficult years: “I was playing with fire […] It was only a matter of time before I got caught and my business ended up on the cover of a tabloid or I went to jail or worse, ended up dead. Looking back on it now, I don’t know how I didn’t end up in a body bag.”
“It’s a daily fight for me, but I fight,” he also confided in an interview for the New York Times. Contacted by the AP press agency last year, Michael K. Williams still spoke of his difficult childhood and his fight against drug addiction.
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