Marion Christopher Barry, the son of former DC mayor, Marion Barry has passed away at the age of 36. In a statement, his stepmother, Cora Masters Barry broke the news of his untimely death, “My heart is broken,” she said. “I am in shock. The news of his death is beyond comprehension.”
Barry battled with substance abuse as his father did before passing away in 2014. While an official cause of death hasn’t been confirmed, it is being reported that he died suddenly from a K-2 overdose. According to the Washington Post, a D.C. police report details Barry having stepped outside of a residence to smoke the drug and upon returning inside, the report said Barry acted “erratically” and then dropped to the ground. He was taken to George Washington University hospice here he was pronounced dead at 2:11 a.m.
If you remember, Barry had ran for the council seat his father previously held, but lost. Close friend to the family, Fairley McCaskill told The Washington Post that he struggled to clean up his image after publicized run-ins with the law. Regardless, she remembers her friend as a “one-of-kind type of guy” and says that he will be missed.
“Chris is someone I grew up with and now he’s gone,” McCaskill said. “This is surreal. Those who really knew Chris knew that he marched to his own beat, and we loved that about him. He had a big heart,” she said. “I think a lot of times he was misunderstood based on how he was portrayed in the media, which our goal was to shift that image and portrayal during his campaign run, and help people to get to know him the way we knew him. He was a one-of-a-kind type of guy and he will be missed tremendously.”
This is a sad ending to the Marion Barry legacy, especially since this family truly cared about the well-being of Washington D.C. Please keep this family in your thoughts and prayers, Roommates!
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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2016/08/14/295b5b7c-621d-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html
