CAUSE OF DEATH: Journalist confirmed kingpin, Rayful Edmond, died of heart attack in his sleep

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Journalist confirmed kingpin, Rayful Edmond, died of heart attack in his sleep.

WASHINGTON – Officials have confirmed that notorious drug kingpin Rayful Edmond, the man accused of bringing the crack epidemic to D.C., has died at the age of 60.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Edmond died Tuesday. He had been transferred from prison to a halfway house in Nashville at the end of July. His cause of death has not been released at this time. READ MORE HERE

Rayful Edmond was an infamous cocaine kingpin who once reigned over Washington, D.C.’s drug trade.

He was arrested at age 24 and sentenced in federal court in 1990 to life in prison for introducing crack cocaine to D.C., which contributed to the city earning the title of “Murder Capital of the U.S.” in the 1980s