The one-year anniversary of Mac Miller’s overdose death was on Saturday (September 7). Only a few days before, the alleged drug dealer who sold Miller fentanyl-laced oxycodone pills was arrested and charged in connection with his passing.
A memorial was held in his hometown of Pittsburgh over the weekend where Miller’s father Mark McCormick reacted to the news.
“So they finally caught the mother fucker who sold the drugs that killed him,” McCormick says in a video clip. “I do find some comfort in that. Many of us were young, including me, experimenting with drugs. But it’s a different fucking world out there.
“All it takes is a little tiny stone of fentanyl in cocaine and you’re dead. Drugs are being laced with fentanyl, all kinds of drugs. The only thing I would say to you is don’t take the risk. It’s just not worth it. It’s just not worth it.”
Miller was found unresponsive in his Studio City home on September 7, 2018. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office discovered fentanyl and cocaine were in his system at the time of his death.
Miller was discovered on his bed in a “praying position” by his assistant who described him as already being “blue” during the 911 call. An empty bottle of alcohol was next to him on the nightstand and a bottle of prescription pills was found in the bathroom. Police also discovered a rolled up $20 bill with white powdery residue in Miller’s right pocket.
The Grammy Award-nominated artist was 26.
[This article has been updated. The following was published on September 4, 2019.]
Mac Miller died almost a year ago this month. His death sent shockwaves through the Hip Hop community and beyond. Just shy of the one-year mark, Miller’s alleged Hollywood Hills drug dealer has been arrested and charged in connection with his passing.
According to NBC, federal prosecutors charged 28-year-old Cameron James Pettit on Wednesday (September 4), accusing him of providing Miller with counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl.
In a new 42-page criminal complaint out of the Central District of California, prosecutors claim Miller had asked Pettit for “percs,” the abbreviated name for the powerful narcotic pain killer percocet.
Miller was found unresponsive in his Studio City home on September 7, 2018. Although the manner of death was initially certified as an accident, it was later determined Miller died from an overdose of alcohol, cocaine and fentanyl.
During the investigation into his death, authorities recovered a plastic bag containing pills allegedly supplied by a prostitute and a madam. Two days earlier, Pettit delivered to Miller counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl, cocaine and Xanax.
Instagram DMs between Pettit and other people who were reacting to Miller’s death were included in the criminal complaint.
“I think I should probably not post anything … just to be smart,” Petit allegedly said in one of the messages. When asked how he was doing, Petit allegedly replied, “I am not great … Most likely I will die in jail.”
DEA Los Angeles Deputy Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux promised to speak up for those who are no longer with us.
“While the death of any victim of the opioid epidemic is tragic, today’s arrest is another success for the DEA’s HIDTA Fusion Task Force,” Comeaux said. “Let our message be clear, if you peddle illegal drugs and kill someone, the DEA will be the voice of the victim. We will not rest until you face the justice system.”
Pettit is one of three people who allegedly supplied Miller with the drugs. It’s unclear when (or if) the other two (presumably the madame and prostitute) will be charged.
you mean idiots use social media to facilitate drug deals? millionaires at that? & they get phones in their real names? dont use signal? dont get new phones every few days?
amazing generation i tell ya
How do you get internet when you’re living under a rock?
Ffs Mac specifically asked you not to mix it too.
Yo the DEA bein the voice of the victims is fuckin crazy..especially if you ever been in the Fed Systemn hahah
I dunno… it feels like someone or some people want to place the blame of Mac being a junkie on this guy.
Look, its not like he had a gun to his head and said “do this or die”, yes drug dealing is illegal and i understand the drug selling charge, but to blame this dude for mac’s death is absurd…the fcking government put crack cocaine in the inner cities, they should be charged for the millions of deaths amd lives it destroyed if thats the case…we’re dying from eating poisoned gmo and hormones food…smh
the dealer laced the drug with someone 100x more potent that heroin. he might as well of put a gun to his head
Well Abe Lincoln, if Mac wasn’t slamming pills he wouldn’t have died. End of story. The shit was laced, but nobody forced the pills down his throat.
how do you know the dealer laced it? maybe it was the dealers dealer, or the dealers dealers dealer. like why would a drug dealer want his clients and source of income to overdose and die? makes no sense to me. but i dont buy or sell drugs so who know.
Wac Miller was a junkie end of story. He should blame nobody but his drug addict itself. If I hand someone a gun and tell them to shoot themself and they do it that’s not on me that’s on their dumb self for not having any mind of their own Smh
This father is a failure. Why did he let his son become a wigger? Now he’s surprised his son is dead! Well should have set that mofo straight and watched who he was hanging with. Ole Eminem wanna-be…
dont blame the adult millionaire junkie who couldn’t find a doctor & was still buying drugs off the street bizzaro world
Hookers, coke, pills, booze its totally the dealers fault
I hope hella people stop buying his garbage azz musick cause of this
Dont wanna make ol Poppa Mac anymore rich of his druggie azz dead son
If only his baby angel of a son could have had been able to score cleaner OxyContin and Cocaine to take while drunk as hell as usual……he’d still be with us!
I don’t wanna poop on the dead but lets be real here. Mac was a big time druggie he always talked and looked spaced out like a real loser. And there’s no such thing as an accidental overdose. When you combining a bunch of different drugs and then mixing them with alcohol as well that’s not no accident that just means you dumb af with a death wish. Common sense wasn’t common to Mac or any other people who die from “accidental” overdoses. And while I’m keeping it all the way real lets just call a spade a spade Mac was indeed a terrible rapper. If we just talking white rappers only Diabolic, Apathy, Celph Titled, Vinnie Paz, Eminem are all far superior to him on the mic and that’s just 5 white rappers I can easily name about 10 more white rappers better than him.
Agree with the drug abuse part but bruh terrible rapper? Thats highly opinionated. I fuck with everyone you named too.. but Mac was a super talented MC and suuuper successful. I guess it just boils down to preference.
Mac didn’t do anything wrong. I blame the dealer 100%!!! All you lame fucks on here are just mad cuz you are some nobodies. Waiting for someone’s downfall so you can hop online to feel important.
Yep cause the dealer manufactured the shit and decided to add fentanyl yep his dealer was as oblivious to that shit as he was what really needs to happen is make drugs legal then quality can actualy be checked to avoid deaths like his regardless if mac would not have bought from this guy he woulda just bought from some other dope dealer and that chances are the same shit woulda happened to him look at jim morrison look at janis joplin this shits been happening for 50+ years to celebs you sound like a pussy with a shrine to lil peep and mac miller in your closet
Say less bitch. Dudes obviously trolling and you are obviously a dumb fuck.
Yeah, it’s the dealer’s fault. Not your addict son’s fault. Delusional.
He made black rappers sounds like elementary school poetry failures. His annunciation of words, his vocal speech was super clear and his ability to read and write were far superior. He was the best rapper ever. I don’t listen to rap anymore, i don’t understand these lowly educated rappers these days.
Mac was a junky and basically killed himself like Lil Peep and all the others who OD. His pops should’ve had a serious talk with his son and maybe put them paws on him to get sober and stay sober.
White privilege indeed word up
Taking drugs is suicidal unfortunately,especially when feeding an addition. But I understand the parent just being a parent going through the pain of losing their child
How does he know if the drug dealer fucked his mother or not? Where’s the evidence.. I hope the drug dealer sues his ass for slander