NEW YORK (WCMH) — Rapper DMX has recovered after he was found “lifeless” by police outside Yonkers, New York hotel on Monday, his attorney confirms.
Yonkers Police Detective Lt. Patrick McCormack said officers responded to a Ramada Inn, where they found a 45-year-old man with no pulse in the parking lot. Murray Richman confirmed his client had stopped breathing, but Richman said he did not know the cause. Richman said the rapper suffers from asthma.
McCormack said the man resumed breathing after officers performed CPR and gave him oxygen. The New York Post and WNBC both report a medic also injected DMX with Narcan, which is an anti-opioid used to reverse the effects of a heroin overdose.
“The cops did a great job, they saved [his] life – no doubt about it,” a police spokesman said.
Richman said Tuesday that the artist, whose given name is Earl Simmons, is now out of the hospital.The Associated Press contributed to this report.