Prince was patient of experienced family MD

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota doctor questioned by investigators in Prince’s death is an experienced family-care physician who worked for a Minneapolis-area health care system until recently.

A search warrant revealed this week that Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg, 46, treated Prince on April 7 and April 20 and prescribed him medications, though it didn’t specify which or say whether Prince took them. Prince was found dead April 21 in his suburban Minneapolis home.

A law-enforcement official has told the Associated Press that investigators are looking into whether Prince died from an overdose. The lawenforcement official has been briefed on the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Investigators interviewed Schulenberg and searched a suburban Minneapolis hospital where he worked, according to the warrant.

The Schulenberg home in Excelsior, a southwestern Minneapolis suburb is just a few minutes’ drive from Prince’s Paisley Park compound.

Several neighbours either declined to comment on Schulenberg or said the development was new and that they didn’t know the doctor.

Schulenberg was a primary-care physician for North Memorial Medical Center until at least April 21, but he has since left the job. Lesa Bader, a spokeswoman for the health-care system, said personnel records are private and she couldn’t comment on why Schulenberg no longer works at their Minnetonka clinic.

Schulenberg is the second doctor whose name has surfaced in the investigation. Last week, a lawyer for California addiction specialist Dr. Howard Kornfeld told reporters that Prince’s representatives had contacted Kornfeld seeking help April 20, the day before the superstar was found dead.