Mac Miller: Three charged with providing rapper with drugs that killed him
Stephen Walker is accused of selling counterfeit oxycodone pills which were laced with the powerful opioid fentanyl.
Thursday 3 October 2019 04:58, UK
Three men have been charged with providing rapper Mac Miller with the drugs that killed him.
Miller, 26, who was the ex-boyfriend of popstar Ariana Grande, died of an accidental overdose at his California home after taking a cocktail of fentanyl, cocaine and alcohol.
A grand jury indictment has accused Cameron Pettit, Stephen Walter and Ryan Reavis of conspiring and distributing the cocaine and oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that caused Miller's death in September 2018.
They were earlier arrested on drugs charges but have since been accused of the further charge that their drugs led to Miller's death.
Walter is suspected of selling counterfeit oxycodone pills - which contained fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more potent than heroin - to Cameron Pettit.
Pettit then sold the pills to Miller two days before he died.
Ryan Reavis, 36, is accused of being Walter's "runner" who delivered the pills to Pettit.
Miller had a history of drug and alcohol abuse but had not previously overdosed.
Authorities said they found drugs believed to be from Pettit in Miller's home, as well as evidence that Miller had crushed and sniffed oxycodone provided by Pettit.
Both Reavis and Walter have previously been charged with being in possession of ammunition as a felon and have criminal histories involving drugs.
The three men remain in custody.
Miller, whose real name was Malcolm James Myers McCormick, was in a two-year relationship with Ariana Grande that ended earlier in 2018.
He had opened up about his struggles with depression and addiction in his music.
After his death, Grande posted a video of the rapper to her Instagram and has spoken out their relationship.
She told Vogue this year that Miller "didn't deserve his demons" and was the "best person ever".
The singer said that "for such a long time" she was the glue that held him together through his struggles but she found herself becoming "less and less sticky".