Michael Jackson’s death has become a criminal investigation, the Jackson family lawyer said Sunday.
The singer, 50, died Thursday after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles.
Michael’s personal doctor, Dr Conrad Murray, was quizzed for three hours by Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday.
Murray is suspected of giving Jacko a shot of the potent painkiller Demerol before he collapsed and frantically tried to revive the singer long after he had died.
He is even believed to have plunged a syringe into Wacko’s heart in his efforts to revive him.
Homicide detectives investigating the death have insisted it is not a criminal investigation.
But Brian Oxman yesterday told Britain’s The Sun newspaper that the Jackson family have been told otherwise – and they want anybody who is found to be responsible to be brought to justice.
The family carried out their own private second autopsy on Saturday to give them evidence to launch legal proceedings after the coroner’s examination ruled out foul play.
“I can tell you, and this is a new development, there is a criminal investigation taking place by the Los Angeles Police Department,” Oxman said. “That is the case. They have told the family.
“What they are going to do, who they are going to talk to and what is going to happen, I don’t know. That is up to them. I don’t want to make any accusations as to any particular people. I want to wait till the toxicology tests are completed and let the authorities do their thing. Then we will find out.”
As for Dr Murray, Oxman added, “I don’t know what he did. But the reports I have heard are disturbing. A Demerol shot sure sounds consistent with what I knew.
“I have clients who have got themselves into a mess and they sit and go, ‘What am I going to do.’ And the brain goes into gridlock. Then after the gridlock breaks they start clearing up the mess.”
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