
We have been doing some investigation into the sudden Death of hip hop legend Heavy D aka Dwight Arrington Myers. It appears that Heavy D knew something was wrong, it is being reported that he went to the doctor for a check-up with “what appeared to be like flu-like symptoms,” according to Ed Winter, Assistant Chief of the L.A. County Coroner’s office.
Heavy D was in England and had recently returned, His cousin Ruddy Phillips said to the New York Daily News .
“He said he had a touch of pneumonia, maybe from traveling."
As to what cause Heavy D's death that is still a mystery, but what is being reported is that he just returned home from a shopping Meyers started experiencing shortness of breath and collapsed in a hallway outside his condo building.
He was than rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and died an hour and a half late.
Lt. Mark Rosen of the Beverly Hills Police Department said.
“There doesn’t appear to be any foul play. We believe it was medically related."
An autopsy was performed last Wednesday, but investigators declined to release a preliminary cause of death until toxicology tests are performed. The tests could take up to six weeks to complete.
Dwight Arrington Myers, born in 1967 in Jamaica and raised in Mount Vernon, rose to fame in the 1990’s as the front-man for the group “Heavy D and the Boyz.”
Heavy D has a cameo in the new movie “Tower Heist,” starring Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller.
Heavyd's cousin Ruddy Phillips continued;
“He leaves behind his 13-year-old daughter, whom he loved dearly, He was a really great dad. Everybody is now wondering how she’s going to take it now that he’s gone. She loves her dad so much,” Phillips said. “And his mother is taking it really hard. He’s the third brother in the family to die. Everybody is stunned. No one can believe it. He was so young.”
Funeral services for the late rapper will be held over a period of two days in his hometown of Mount Vernon, New York this coming Thursday and Friday.
A public viewing is scheduled for Thursday (Nov 17) from noon to 6 p.m., while a private service for family and close friends will follow the next day
R.I.P Heavy D we have nothin but love for ya!
He leaves behind his 13-year-old daughter, whom he loved dearly his cousin