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Juice Wrld may have triggered own death

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Juice Wrld’s entourage has given new details about what may have caused his fatal seizure.

Federal agents told reporters that the rapper swallowed a number of Percocet painkiller­s to hide them from police before landing at Chicago’s Midway Airport on Sunday, according to the Daily Mail.

The star was flying into town from Los Angeles with his friends and security team to celebrate his 21st birthday.

While still in flight, the private jet’s pilot told Chicago authoritie­s that the rapper and his pals were likely carrying drugs and weapons.

As they were about to land, the group was warned that police would be searching their bags upon arrival, at which point Juice Wrld reportedly took the pills.

While officials and sniffer dogs searched the bags, he began convulsing. According to reports, officials asked his girlfriend, Ally Lotti, if he had any medical conditions, at which point she said he had a “drug problem” and regularly took Percocet.

An agent on the scene reportedly administer­ed Juice Wrld two doses of Narcan — an emergency treatment used for opioid overdoses — and after 40 minutes, the rapper woke up. He is said to have been conscious but bleeding from the mouth when he was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. He was pronounced dead just one hour later.

In the group’s luggage, police found 70 pounds of marijuana, six bottles of prescripti­on codeine cough syrup, multiple guns and metal-piercing bullets.

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