Will Anyone Be Charged In Prince’s Death? | For The Record

>>> IT'S BEEN NEARLY A YEAR SINCE PRINCE WAS FOUND DEAD AT
HOME. HIS CAUSE OF DEATH WAS OVERDOSE
FROM THE POWERFUL PAINKILLER FENTANYL.
THEY FOUND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ALL OVER HIS HOME EVEN THOUGH HE
DID NOT HAVE A PRESCRIPTION. THE INVESTIGATION IS WIDE OPEN.
>> Reporter: THE NEWLY REVEALED DETAILS IS A TROUBLING FIND
INSIDE PAISLEY PARK. POWERFUL DRUGS FOR WHICH HE HAD
NO PRESCRIPTIONS INSIDE HIS HOME SOME LABELLED VITAMINS AND
ASPIRIN. DETECTIVES RECOVERING A SUITCASE
NEXT TO PRINCE'S BEAD WITH HIS ALIAS, PETER BRAVESTRONG, INSIDE
A POWERFUL OPIOID AND HIT LYRICS FOR "YOU GOT THE LOOK.
HE WAS FOUND INSIDE HIS MANSION A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK, KILLED BY
AN ACCIDENT AT OVERDOSE BY THE POWERFUL PAINKILLER FENTANYL, A
MYSTERY WHERE HE OBTAINED THESE DRUGS AND MANY OTHERS FOUND IN
THEIR HOME. >> ONCE THEY START MIXING
DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEDICATION, THAT'S WHEN THINGS GO SOUTH.
>> Reporter: WITH COURT DOCUMENTS SAYING SOME
MEDICATIONS WERE PRESCRIBED BY LONG-TIME FRIEND KIRK JOHNSON,
THE FORMER DRUMMER SAID HE WAS UNAWARE HE WAS ADDICTED TO PAY
IN MEDICATION. BUT A REHAB SAID HE CONTACTED
THEM BECAUSE HE WAS STRUGGLING WITH OPIOID ABUSE.
>> AUTHORITIES SAY THERE WAS PRESCRIPTION ABUSE AND FOLLOWING
THE SOURCING, WHERE DID THAT ALL COME FROM?
>> TONIGHT, IN THE DEATH THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD, STILL NO
CRIMINAL CHARGES AND INVESTIGATION THAT IS FAR FROM
OVER. MIGUEL ALMAGUER, NBC NEWS, NEW
YORK. >>> A FORMER PROSECUTOR AND
MSNBC LEGAL ANALYST, WHO SHOULD BE LOOKING TO GET A LAWYER
TONIGHT? >> KIRK JOHNSON, WHO'S ALREADY
LAWYERED UP FROM WHAT WE KNOW AND THE FAMILY DOCTOR MET WITH
PRINCE ON TWO OCCASIONS AND PRESCRIBED THE OXYCODONE
KNOWINGLY IN JOHNSON'S NAME AND ANYBODY WHO MIGHT HAVE ENABLED
PRINCE IN HIS OPIOID ADDICTION. IT WAS NO SECRET TO
>> AND CERTAINLY FOR -- >> AND OBVIOUSLY CAN'T GET THIS
ONE OVER THE PHONE, SO SOMEBODY AND -- WELL, I GUESS, THEN
THAT'S FAIR, IF IT'S IN HIS NAME MEDICAL CONDITION.
AND KNOWS WHOSE PRINCE. AND HIMSELF BROUGHT THEM IN.
>> AND FRANKLY YOUR EAR RIGHT, IF PRINCE SHOWED UP AT YOUR
LOCAL WALL GREENS, I THINK PEOPLE WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT THE
HECK WAS GOING ON. PRINCE DIDN'T LIKE TO USE A CELL
PHONE. HE USED E-MAIL AND SO THEY HAVE
DONE AN INVESTIGATION WITH A SEARCH WARRANT WITH THE
ASSISTANCE OF DEA TO LOOK AT THE E-MAILS TO SEE WITH WHOM WAS HE
COMMUNICATING TO FURTHER AND ASSIST HIM IN HIS ADDICTION, WE
ALL KNOW AND REMEMBER CONRAD MURRAY, WHO WAS MICHAEL
JACKSON'S DOCTOR, HE WAS PROSECUTED FOR VOLUNTARY
MANSLAUGHTER, MINNESOTA HAS THE EXACT TYPE OF STATUTE, CONRAD
MURRAY GOT FOUR YEARS IN PRISON BACK IN 2011 AND I'M WONDER
WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE LOOKING WITH THAT STATUTE IN MIND TO SEE
IF MAYBE SOMEBODY HELPED PRINCE BASICALLY KILL HIMSELF BY WAY OF
AN OVERDOSE ON DRUGS. >> EVERY TIME I LOOK ONLINE,
THERE'S SOME COMMUNITY THAT'S POISONED BY THE AMOUNT OF, YOU
KNOW, DRUG ADDICTION FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS.
YOU HAVE PEOPLE AND SOMEBODY LIKE PRINCE WHO HAS THE
RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO FUEL A DRUG ADDICTION AND IT'S CLEARLY
EFFECTING EVERYBODY IN THE UNITED STATES IN CERTAIN POCKETS
OF THE COCOMMUNITIES. I THINK IT'S GREAT THIS IS
BRINGING AWARENESS THAT MAYBE THIS TYPE OF ABUSE HAS
HAPPENING, AGAIN, IT'S A TRAGEDY, A VERY TALENTED MAN WHO
HAD BEEN DOING A CONCERT WHEN HE HAD FALLEN ILL AND SHORTLY THERE
AFTER HE DIED. >> THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE THAT
WERE ADDICTED TO THESE DRUGS, WE WERE READING ABOUT IT EVERY
SINGLE DAY IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES.
IT'S DESTROYING COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES, THEIR MARRIAGE IS
FALLING APART. IT'S INCREDIBLE.
>> THERE'S AN INCREASED AWARENESS NOW THAT IS SOMETHING
THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO PROMOTE AND WE KNOW
THAT ESPECIALLY IN FLORIDA, WE HAVE OUR OWN PROBLEMS AS WELL
AND WE'RE TRYING TO PROSECUTE IT AND BRING IN THE PEOPLE THAT ARE
FEEDING THIS PROBLEM. >> ANYONE WHO TOUCHED THIS,
HAVING TO DO WITH PRINCE MIGHT WANT TO GET A LAWYER TONIGHT
BECAUSE AIDING AND ABETTING IS QUITE -- IF THERE'S A CRIMINAL

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