Before getting hospitalized, a pedestrian who passed Douglas Kiker, the” Singing Garbage Man” from” American Idol,” reportedly decided to call 911 after seeing him in” American Idol” Season 18 for what he reportedly looked like.
Kiker passed away on March 10 at Colorado’s Denver Health Medical Center, a Denver Medical Examiner’s office member informed The Times in an email on Friday. He had just a few blocks west of City Center Park when he was taken there by ambulance on March 5.
Kiker appeared to be taking an opioid before going into the hospital, the caller told TMZ. Formally, Kiker suffered a heart attack caused by drugs, according to sources outside of regulation protection.
Authorities said Friday that” the cause and manner of death are pending analysis.”
The Mobile, Alabama gentleman, who got his name singing while stumbling off his day job garbage truck, charmed the judges with his intact demeanor and unmatched ability. He was given a Hollywood seat, but he was later dismissed in the first Hollywood round, just like so many others are.
Perhaps so, he made a virtual achievement of his interview song,” Bless the Broken Road,” with Rascal Flatts, the channel that made the tune first recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band into a strike in 2005. He then returned to the competition for the tournament episode. The performers, judges, and host were televised performances from COVID-19 lockdown, far off even as Kiker and the group were singing along.
” Wow y’all! In May 2020, Kiker posted a song on YouTube that made me believe I really sang along with Rascal Flatts. ” So much has happened since my first interview, y’all. I’m working on putting together an recording”!
Kiker, who was 32, shared a daughter with Valerie Cook and was the father of two younger women. Sister Faith Evans responded to people who had inquired about helping the community after that day on Instagram after posting expression of his death on Wednesday evening.
We are totally prepared and will need a small help getting him back from Denver Colorado and being able to provide the monument that not only he but everyone else deserves,” Evans wrote on Wednesday evening, referring people to a GoFundMe account that has since raised more money than the sum that was requested. She thanked her for the delay in responding, telling us to” charge it to our minds no our emotions.”
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