Chicago-born rapper Juice WRLD died early Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest at Midway Airport. He had turned 21 just six days earlier.
Emergency crews responded about 2 a.m. to a private plane at the airport. Juice WRLD, whose real name is Jarad Anthony Higgins, was rushed to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and pronounced dead at 3:14 a.m.
FBI agents seized 70 pounds of marijuana from the plane Juice WRLD had charted, and several people who were on the plane told investigators that the rapper had taken “several unknown pills” before he suffered seizures, TMZ reported.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Juice WRLD was with about a dozen people, including his entourage, security guards and aircraft staff, and was seen “basically convulsing” at the private hangar.
The musician, who was born in Chicago and raised in south suburban Homewood, graduated in 2017 from Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School after gaining a reputation as a talented musician among the nearly 3,000 students.
