Police Investigating If Unprescribed Drugs Factored Into Death of Former NFL Player Mike Williams

Police Investigating If Unprescribed Drugs Factored Into Death of Former NFL Player Mike Williams
Mike Williams of the Buffalo Bills and Tampa Bay Buccaneers teams is photographed on June 17, 2014. AP Photo
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TAMPA, Fla.—Police are investigating the death of former NFL player Mike Williams in Tampa after getting information that he may have received unprescribed drugs from someone while hospitalized after a construction site accident.

The Tampa Police Department said in an email Tuesday that the probe involves “unprescribed narcotics by an outside party.” Williams died Sept. 12 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa at age 36, two weeks after he was injured in a construction accident that left him partially paralyzed.