Officials: Homicide Probe Launched Into B.B. King's Death After Family Alleges Poisoning, Nevada authorities said on Monday they would direct a murder examination concerning the demise of B.B. Lord who passed on this month at age 89, after two of his girls leveled allegations that soul extraordinary was killed.
The Clark County, Nevada coroner's office said in a posting on Twitter that it had taken locale over King's body, and that post-mortem examination results would take at least six to eight weeks.
"Our coroner takes locale over #BBKing body, performs post-mortem examination. Results:6-8wks min," it said, including that a manslaughter examination would be directed alongside the Las Vegas police division.
Two of King's youngsters, Karen Williams and Patty King, asserted that King was harmed, apparently by two of his long-lasting partners including one who had force of lawyer over his issues, the Associated Press reported.
"I accept my dad was harmed and that he was regulated remote substances. I accept my dad was killed," every lady said in proclamations contained in archives submitted to the AP by their legal counselor.
A lawyer for King's bequest called the assertions unwarranted and discourteous, AP said.
The ladies additionally asserted in news feature posted online that individuals from King's family were kept from going to him by the two partners amid his last days.
Lord, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame part who passed on in Las Vegas on May 14, had said prior in the month he was in hospice care at his home in the wake of being hospitalized in April with drying out identified with diabetes.
Lord's burial service was planned to be hung on Friday in Mississippi. It was vague whether the examination would postpone that.
The Clark County, Nevada coroner's office said in a posting on Twitter that it had taken locale over King's body, and that post-mortem examination results would take at least six to eight weeks.
"Our coroner takes locale over #BBKing body, performs post-mortem examination. Results:6-8wks min," it said, including that a manslaughter examination would be directed alongside the Las Vegas police division.
Two of King's youngsters, Karen Williams and Patty King, asserted that King was harmed, apparently by two of his long-lasting partners including one who had force of lawyer over his issues, the Associated Press reported.
"I accept my dad was harmed and that he was regulated remote substances. I accept my dad was killed," every lady said in proclamations contained in archives submitted to the AP by their legal counselor.
A lawyer for King's bequest called the assertions unwarranted and discourteous, AP said.
The ladies additionally asserted in news feature posted online that individuals from King's family were kept from going to him by the two partners amid his last days.
Lord, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame part who passed on in Las Vegas on May 14, had said prior in the month he was in hospice care at his home in the wake of being hospitalized in April with drying out identified with diabetes.
Lord's burial service was planned to be hung on Friday in Mississippi. It was vague whether the examination would postpone that.
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