Overview
- The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner determined the cause as hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, a natural death.
- He was 75, according to reports citing the medical examiner.
- Emergency Medical Service personnel pronounced him dead at the scene after he was discovered just after 5 p.m. Thursday.
- King was convicted for the 1987 bank robbery involving Paula Deen, then a bank teller, and he served time in prison.
- In a 2013 Inside Edition interview, he apologized to Deen and addressed the public scrutiny she faced that year.