'Shiloh' Star Blake Heron's Death Possible Drug Overdose: UPDATE

LA CRESCENTA, CA – Actor Blake Heron, who starred in the 1996 movie "Shiloh," was found dead Friday morning at his home in La Crescenta, where he may have suffered a fatal drug overdose.

The 35-year-old was found by a friend and was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:49 a.m., according to coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter.

Without naming Heron, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported that deputies from the Crescenta Valley Station responded about 7:05 a.m. to a call of a person not breathing at a home in the 3000 block of Alabama Street.

They found a 35-year-old man "who appeared to be suffering from an apparent overdose of an illicit narcotic substance," according to a sheriff's department statement.

The deputies attempted lifesaving measures and administered Narcan spray in an unsuccessful attempt to revive the man. Paramedics arrived and also tried to save him, the sheriff's department reported.

Heron was reported to have been battling the flu for the past few days, but an autopsy to determine his cause of death was pending, Winter said.

According to TMZ, Heron had past struggles with drug addiction and recently was in rehab, however, the news site initially was told no illegal drugs were found in his home.

Heron this year was in the film "A Thousand Junkies," a comic narrative about three Los Angeles heroin addicts, that screened at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

Heron's credits include film "We Were Soldiers," and television series "Good vs Evil," "ER," and "Criminal Minds," according to his IMDB biography. Heron also appeared on the shows "NCIS: New Orleans" and "The Practice."

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