Earlier this month, the Indianapolis Colts announced that team owner Jim Irsay was being treated for a “severe respiratory illness.” But based on police documents, he was treated for a drug overdose after he was found unresponsive in his bed after a suspected drug overdose.
According to police documents obtained by TMZ Sports, Jim Irsay was found laying in his bed “unresponsive, cold to the touch and gasping for air” on Dec. 8 at around 4:30 a.m.
“Carmel Police Department documents, obtained by TMZ Sports, show cops were dispatched to Irsay’s Carmel residence on Dec. 8 at around 4:30 AM … after someone said they had found the Indianapolis Colts owner unconscious on a bathroom floor with a blue skin tone,” TMZ Sports reported.
By the time police arrived, Irsay had been moved to his bed where he was struggling to breathe and had a weak pulse. Suspecting a drug overdose, police decided to administer Narcan, which is commonly used to reverse opiate overdoses.
“Police say in the docs an attempt to wake him with a sternum rub was unsuccessful. They added, though, that after administering one dosage of Narcan — a drug commonly used to revive people in opiate overdose situations — ‘he responded slightly,'” TMZ reported.
Police classified the incident as both “overdose” and “overdose/poisoning.”
“At this time, it is unknown what Mr. Irsay had ingested prior to our arrival,” the police documents said according to TMZ.
It’s not clear whether his recent hospitalization is related to the incident in December.
