4 Are Charged in Overdose Death of Michael K. Williams
The New York Times
New York City detectives pieced together the fatal sale to Mr. Williams using surveillance video and license plate readers, according to court records.
The authorities in Manhattan announced on Wednesday the arrests of four men who they said sold a deadly dose of fentanyl-laced heroin to Michael K. Williams, the Brooklyn actor who was best known for his portrayal of a gay stickup man in the television series “The Wire.”
The men were part of a drug trafficking crew that operated in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and sold the deadly dose to Mr. Williams on Sept. 5 in a hand-to-hand transaction that was captured on surveillance video, the authorities said.
“This is a public health crisis,” Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. “And it has to stop. Deadly opioids like fentanyl and heroin don’t care about who are you or what you’ve accomplished.”