Tay Keith’s Cause of Death Revealed
The cause of death for Tay Keith — the Grammy-nominated producer who died in June at age 29 — has been revealed. A source at the medical examiner’s office in Nashville confirms to Rolling Stone that Keith died from an accidental drug overdose.
Per the source, Keith died from “combined mitragynine, 7-Hydroxymitragynine, mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, and ketamine toxicity. The manner of death was accident.” Mitragynine is a naturally occurring alkaloid that can be isolated from the leaves of Mitragyna speciosa, a medicinal plant also known as kratom, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information ’s National Library of Medicine. The news was first reported by TMZ . Rolling Stone has requested the full autopsy report.
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