Rapper and YouTube star Lil Peep has died aged 21.
Camera IconRapper and YouTube star Lil Peep has died aged 21. Credit: Supplied, Instagram

US Drug Enforcement Administration hunt for person who gave Lil Peep drugs laced with fentanyl

Staff writersNews Corp Australia

THE US Drug Enforcement Administration has launched an investigation to try and find the person who gave rapper Lil Peep fentanyl which resulted in his overdose death.

TMZ reports that authorities are interested in talking to Lil Peep fan, Mariah Bons, who allegedly boasted about getting him “high af” during a visit to their tour bus hours before he died.

Rapper Lil Peep, aka Gustav Ahr, died from an accidental overdose of Fentanyl and Xanax.
Camera IconRapper Lil Peep, aka Gustav Ahr, died from an accidental overdose of Fentanyl and Xanax. Credit: Supplied, Instagram

The 21-year-old rapper, whose real name was Gustav Åhr, died on November 15 on his tour bus in Tucson, Arizona with the medical examiner ruling that it was due to combined toxic effects of fentanyl and Xanax.

One of the messages purportedly from Ms Bons reads: “GBC [Lil Peep] high af because of me and my friend lol.”

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Lil Peep fan Mariah Bons suggested online that she gave him drugs before his death.
Camera IconLil Peep fan Mariah Bons suggested online that she gave him drugs before his death. Credit: Supplied, Instagram
Rapper and YouTube star Lil Peep.
Camera IconRapper and YouTube star Lil Peep. Credit: Supplied, Instagram

Another says: “He passed the f**k out my brother called and I tried to get him to say hi to my brother but he wouldn’t wake up.”

Ms Bons’s brother Nicky Bons was the subject of Lil Peep’s last tweet, which called for his release from jail, where he is serving time for assault.

Rapper and YouTube star Lil Peep did not have alcohol in his system when he died.
Camera IconRapper and YouTube star Lil Peep did not have alcohol in his system when he died. Credit: Supplied, Instagram

Posted at 3.01pm on November 15, the day of his death, the tweet reads: “Free my biggest fan Nick Bons I love u”.

At the time of his death, Lil Peep also had cocaine and marijuana in his system, as well as prescription medications including Hydrocodone, Hydromorphone, Oxycodone, Oxymorphone and Tramadol.

The rap artist’s brother Karl ‘Oskar’ Åher, 23, told People magazine, he believed Lil Peep took a pill not knowing it was laced.

“We have heard there was some sort of substance he did not expect to be involved in the substance he was taking,” Oskar said. “He thought he could take what he did, but he had been given something and he didn’t realise what it was.”

Lil Peep had just released his first full-length album in August called Come Over When You’re Sober, Part 1.