Overview
- Emergency Medical Service personnel pronounced King dead after he was found unresponsive in his Brooklyn apartment just after 5 p.m. Thursday.
- The New York City Medical Examiner determined the death was natural, attributing it to hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
- Reports list King’s age at 75.
- In 1987, Deen, then a bank teller, said King held a gun to her head during a robbery, for which he was later convicted and sentenced to 25 years for that crime and another robbery.
- In a 2013 Inside Edition interview, King apologized to Deen for the fear he caused and later defended her during her racial-slur controversy.