He was a heroin addict for nearly 30 years, and died from fentanyl-laced coke in his apt building's stairwell in his early-40s.
Back when he was a teen and running with the wrong crowd in the 90s friends of the family were saying this won't end well (they saw him dying young). Some detox and prison stints over his lifetime. Never would commit to N.A. or proper recovery as he "didn't have a problem" like the older people he'd see in recovery.
One of my friends' moms was there that morning in the late-80s, but thankfully uninjured.
It was a good place to visit in the 90s as a teen. It connected to the far end of the mall, and there was a grocery store, 2 electronics stores nearby, A&W (for burgers), hiphop clothing spot, 2 movie complexes, and a popular arcade all within a few minutes of one another.