Music superstar Prince died two years ago because he thought he
was taking the common painkiller Vicodin when, unbeknownst to
him, it was laced with deadly fentanyl, authorities said
Thursday.
"He thought he was taking Vicodin and not fentanyl," said Carver
County Attorney Mark Metz at a press conference in Prince's home
county.
Just short of two years after Prince's death, Metz announced
that no one will be charged with a crime in connection with his
death because there's no evidence showing how he got fake
Vicodin laced with fentanyl, and no evidence he knew that's what
it was.
Metz, the top prosecutor in the suburban Minneapolis county,
told reporters the results of a "painstaking and thorough" two-
year investigation found that Prince did not know he had become
addicted to fentanyl and neither did anyone around him.
"To actively charge a crime requires probable cause and a
reasonable likelihood of conviction. The bottom line is that we
simply do not have sufficient evidence to charge anyone with a
crime related to Prince's death," Metz said.
Metz said there was no evidence that pills laced with powerful
fentanyl and found at Prince's home were prescribed by a doctor.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/04/19/prince-death-
investigation/524513002/