Famous Hollywood actor, Michael K. Williams, has died at the age of 54.
According to law enforcement agents, he was found dead in his Brooklyn penthouse and suspected to have died from a drug overdose.
While talking to New York Post, a Police source said: “No foul play indicated. No forced entry, the apartment was in order.”
Sources said Williams’ corpse was found by his nephew in the living room of his Kent Avenue pad in the luxury Williamsburg high-rise.
The Flatbush native was popular for his role as Omar Little in the gritty TV series “The Wire,’’ and as Chalky White in “Boardwalk Empire.’’
Before he died, he was open about his struggles with drugs through the years, which include during the filming of “The Wire,” when he said that getting so into the role of Little, who robs drug dealers, affected him in real life.
In 2016, he told NPR that he once stumbled into a church in New Jersey seriously seeking help for his addiction.
He said: “When I came through those doors, I was broken. … This was, I would say, around the … third season of ‘The Wire.
“I was on drugs. … I was in jeopardy of destroying everything I had worked so hard for, and I came in those doors, and I met a man who had never even heard of ‘The Wire,’ much less watched it.
“I wrote my full name down — Michael Kenneth Williams — and in the office, [the pastor] turns around, and he says, ‘So what do you want to be called, man?’ I said, ‘Well, you know, my name is Michael, but I could do Mike.’ He says, ‘Why does everybody say, ‘Omar, Omar’s in trouble?’ ” And I was like, ‘Oh, this dude is clueless [about the show].”
