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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Michael K. Williams, the award-winning histrion who roseate to stardom for his portrayal of robber-turned-vigilante Omar Little connected the HBO bid “The Wire,” reportedly died of an accidental overdose.
Williams, 54, was found dormant wrong his New York City location earlier this month.
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The New York City Chief Medical Examiner’s Office attributed Williams’ decease to “acute intoxication” from a substance of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, heroin and cocaine, according to a CBS News report.
The mode of decease was ruled accidental.
Citing sources wrong the New York Police Department, CBS News reports police recovered Williams dormant successful his surviving country Sept. 6. According to a Variety report, he was “surrounded by narcotics.”
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Williams was candid astir his cause usage implicit the years, telling The New York Times successful a 2017 interrogation that helium utilized cocaine often during his crook arsenic Freddy Knight successful the “The Night Of.”
“The characters that mean the astir to maine are the ones that damn adjacent termination me,” Williams said astatine the time. “It’s a sacrifice I’ve chosen to make.”
Williams was possibly champion known for his relation arsenic Little, a shotgun-wielding robber with a poetic consciousness of justness and a emotion of Honey Nut Cheerios, whose whistle unsocial sent cause dealers scrambling for cover.
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Besides his relation successful “The Wire,” the histrion was remembered for playing Chalky White, an illiterate gangster, connected HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” acceptable successful Prohibition-era Atlantic City, New Jersey.
CBS Baltimore Staff
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