Michael Jackson's Death Ruled Homicide, Died of "Lethal Levels" of Propofol

Michael Jackson’s death has been ruled a homicide, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office on Monday.

Jackson died of "lethal levels" of the powerful anesthetic propofol, according to a search warrant affidavit unsealed Monday in Houston.

Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal doctor, told detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department that he had been treating Jackson for insomnia for about six weeks. He had been giving Jackson 50 milligrams of propofol every night using an intravenous line, according to the court records.

Murray said that he feared that Jackson was becoming addicted to the drug, so he began to wean him off of the propofol. He lowered the dosage to 25 milligrams and mixed it with two other sedatives, lorazepam and midazolam. On June 23, two days before Jackson's death, he administered those two medications and withheld the propofol, according to the Los Angeles Times.

On the morning Jackson died, Murray tried to induce sleep without using propofol, according to the affidavit. He said he gave Jackson valium at 1:30 a.m. PT. When that didn't work, he said, he injected lorazepam intravenously at 2 a.m. At 3 a.m., when Jackson was still awake, Murray administered midazolam.

Over the next few hours, Murray said he gave Jackson several different drugs. Then at 10:40 a.m., Murray administered 25 milligrams of propofol after Jackson repeatedly demanded the drug, according to the court records.

Although Murray acknowledged to police that he administered propofol, authorities said they could find no evidence that he had purchased, ordered or obtained the medication under his medical license or Drug Enforcement Administration tracking number. However, police detectives saw about eight bottles of propofol in the house along with other vials and pills that had been prescribed to Jackson by Dr. Murray, Dr. Arnold Klein and Dr. Allan Metzger.

On June 25, Jackson was found around 11 a.m. not breathing after Murray left his side for no more than two minutes. After failure to revive him, he was rushed to UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Jackson’s cause of death was the topic of speculation for months.

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