Juice WRLD: federal agent gave rapper opioid antidote before he died, police say
- Musician, 21, briefly woke up after receiving Narcan
- Girlfriend said he had taken painkillers, according to police
A federal agent who was at a Chicago airport to search a private plane that rapper Juice WRLD and his entourage had arrived in administered the opioid antidote Narcan to the performer, who briefly woke up incoherent but later died, authorities said Monday.
The plane carrying the 21-year-old rapper, who was named the top new artist at the 2019 Billboard music awards in May, and about a dozen other people landed at Midway international airport at around 2am on Sunday. Federal agents and city police officers, acting on a tip that a private plane coming from Los Angeles to Midway was carrying guns and drugs, were waiting, the Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Monday.