Former NFL wide receiver Charles Johnson died by suicide on July 17 after overdosing on drugs, according to a report released by the North Carolina state medical examiner's office on Monday, per Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today.
Johnson was found dead in a hotel room in Raleigh after his wife had reported him missing. Officers responded to a welfare check after Johnson had not checked out of the room on July 17 and found him unresponsive on the bed.
The 50-year-old was pronounced dead on the scene. An autopsy revealed he had oxycodone, hydrocodone and mirtazapine in his system at the time of his death, though he had no active prescriptions, according to a query of the North Carolina Prescription Monitoring Service.