And an attorney for a California doctor, Dr. Howard Kornfeld, has come forward to say that he was trying to help the musician with drug addiction when he died.
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Andrew Kornfield, the son of Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a specialist in addiction treatment, was among the first to find the singer dead. Mauzy added that Kornfeld never meant to administer the drugs to Prince; rather, he was planning on delivering them to a Minnesota doctor who Prince was scheduled to meet with on April 21, the day he was found dead.
A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation has told AP that investigators are looking into whether Prince died from an overdose.
An autopsy of Prince’s body found the opioid painkiller Percocet in his system, according to a report on Thursday, citing unnamed sources close to the investigation.
Kornfeld also serves as the medical director for Recovery Without Walls and had apparently told Prince’s team that he would not be able to meet with the artist until April 22. Drew Pinsky is baffled by the fact Prince’s representatives called Dr. Kornfeld for help when the premier treatment centre in the USA was a “few miles” from his home. “The doctor was planning on a lifesaving mission”.
Authorities haven’t released a cause of death.
In a tragic sequence of events, Kornfeld’s son had arrived at Prince’s Paisley Park residence the very morning of his death with buprenorphine. Mauzy said it was Kornfeld who called 911.
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Mauzy said Andrew Kornfeld had been interviewed by Carver County investigators.
