Washington, July 16: Michael Jackson Celebrity website TMZ is reporting that Los Angeles Police Department investigators are now treating the death of entertainer Michael Jackson as murder and focusing their attention on his private physician Dr. Conrad Murray.
The website claims: ‘Law enforcement sources tell us the evidence points to the anesthesia Propofol as the primary cause of Jackson’s death.’
The website goes on to claim: ‘Law enforcement sources say there is already “plenty of powerful evidence” linking Dr. Murray as the person who administered the drug to Jackson. The evidence includes various items found in Jackson’s house, including the Propofol, an IV stand and oxygen tank.’
Murray has repeatedly said he will withhold comment until the coroner’s tests are back.
The first of the toxicology reports are expected back later this week and they might be sufficient to allow the coroner to make a determination as to the cause of Jackson’s death.
Since the dead King of Pop’s death, numerous people including security guards, and a nutritionist, Cherilyn Lee, have said Jackson had a continuing drug addiction.
Lee claimed Jackson had pleaded for Diprivan, despite being told of its harmful effects, while sources close to Jackson have reported that he traveled with an anesthesiologist who would “take him down” at night and “bring him back up” during a world tour in the mid-90s.
Police are reported to have found numerous bottles of prescription drugs in the singer’s $100,000-a-month rented mansion in Holmby Hills, including Diprivan.
Diprivan is a powerful sedative that is administered intravenously and is known by its generic name Propofol. It is commonly used in hospitals to induce unconsciousness in patients before major surgery.
Jackson’s mysterious death from an apparent cardiac arrest at age 50 on June 25 sent shockwaves rippling around the world, triggering a global avalanche of tributes and grief.
Jackson sold more than 750 million albums during a glittering four-decade career that was ultimately overshadowed by repeated allegations of child abuse, his startling physical transformation and eccentric behavior.
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