The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, died in Los Angeles at the age of 50 on Thursday afternoon, after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest, reports in LA Times and elsewhere say. A city official confirmed his death. Call him a freak if you want, but he was a great artist and a modern legend. The circumstances of Jackson’s death remain unclear. Law enforcement sources said to the LA Times that Los Angeles Police Department robbery-homicide detectives have opened an investigation into the death, though they stressed that there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
