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Autopsy shows Bonnaroo death caused by drug overdose

Confetti and streamers fly over the huge crowd at the Muse show on the What Stage Friday night at Bonnaroo.
Confetti and streamers fly over the huge crowd at the Muse show on the What Stage Friday night at Bonnaroo.

MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) – Autopsy results show a man who died while attending the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee accidentally overdosed on drugs.

The Tennessean cited a toxicology report that said 32-year-old Michael Donivan Craddock Jr. of Mt. Juliet had cocaine, alcohol and high levels of a psychedelic amphetamine in his system when he died.

Craddock was found dead on June 8 in a car at a festival campground.

Dozens of people were treated for heat-related issues at the four-day summer festival. The death was the 13th in the festival’s 17-year history.