Michael Jackson’s Doctor Targeted in Manslaughter Probe

The personal doctor who tried to revive Michael Jackson the day he died has become the subject of a manslaughter investigation into the pop icon’s death, according to an Associated Press report.

According to the report, a search warrant filed yesterday allowed authorities to seek “property or items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense.”

The warrant was filed a day after agents seized items from the physician’s Houston clinic and a rented storage unit, including weight loss pills, two computer hard drives, e-mails and a controlled substance registration.

Murray, a 51-year-old cardiologist, was hired to be Jackson’s personal physician just a few weeks before the singer died. He was in Jackson’s rented Los Angeles mansion when the pop star was found unconscious the morning of June 25 and tried unsuccessfully to revive him.

Michael Jackson died June 25, 2009. Although a public memorial has been held in the singer’s honor, Jackson has not yet been laid to rest with a proper funeral, as his body is still being examined by the coroner.