Heavy D Dies At Age 44, Cause of Death Has Not Been Confirmed

At the age of 44, Dwight Arrington Myers, better known as Heavy D has passed. TMZ has reported that Tuesday afternoon, he was transported from his Beverly Hills home to a Los Angeles hospital. No further details have been confirmed. Meanwhile, Monday, when the news hit that Joe Frazier had passed, Heavy D tweeted:

Updated: The cause of Heavy D’s death has still not been confirmed, although more details have been released. Here is the latest via TMZ:

Heavy D had just returned from shopping and walked up some stairs when he began having trouble breathing.  Adam Mills, a designer who was in the building and knew Heavy D, found him leaning against a railing and clearly in distress.  Adam tells us he cradled Heavy D in his lap as others called 911.  Adam says Heavy D was conscious and said to him, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.”  When paramedics took Heavy D to the hospital he had a pulse.  People in the building are saying he died of a heart attack, but we have not been able to confirm that.  Law enforcement sources tell us … no foul play was involved and so far they only know the cause of death was “medical.”

One of Heavy D’s associates said that he also had pneumonia.