San Diego Union-Tribune

Autopsy: Brown’s son died from drugs, alcohol

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Bobby Brown Jr., the son of singer Bobby Brown, died from the combined effects of alcohol, cocaine and the opioid fentanyl, an autopsy report released Monday said.

Brown Jr. was found dead in his Los Angeles

home at age 28 on Nov. 18. At the time authoritie­s said only that they believed no foul play was involved.

Brown Jr.’s girlfriend, who had last seen him alive that morning, found him unresponsi­ve on his bedroom floor and called paramedics, who declared him dead, the report says.

He had a history of drug and alcohol use and his death was ruled an accident, the report says.

Brown Jr.’s mother was Kim Ward, with whom Brown had been in a long relationsh­ip.

The elder Brown sprang to fame with New Edition in the early 1980s, and was one of the biggest solo stars in music during the late ’80s and ’90s.

In 2012, Bobby Brown’s ex-wife, Whitney Houston, was found dead after drowning in a Beverly Hills hotel room bathtub. Coroner’s

officials said heart disease and cocaine were contributi­ng factors. She was 48.

In 2015, their daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was found face-down in a bathtub at her suburban Atlanta home. She was in a coma for six months before dying at age 22 of causes investigat­ors couldn’t pinpoint. An autopsy showed that she had morphine, cocaine, alcohol and prescripti­on drugs in her body.

Her ex-partner, Nick Gordon, was found liable for her death in a lawsuit, but was never charged. Gordon died last year of a heroin overdose at age 30.

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