A case of brotherly love in North Carolina turned deadly after a young man agreed to eat cocaine hidden in his older sibling’s buttocks, then died of an overdose. Deangelo Mitchell is seen in a police car video guilting his brother into injesting the illegal substance because, he is heard saying, “I can’t get no more strikes.” The 23-year-old and his younger brother, Wayne, were pulled over by police for a busted tail light on November 30 in North Charleston, according to ABC News 4. The pair was handcuffed and put into the back of a squad car, police said. The video then shows Deangelo panic over his arrest, and beg his brother to help. “Eat that sh*t, so I can get out,” he says in the video. “One of us gotta do it, you the only one that don’t have any strikes… You my little brother… I’m gonna get life.” The 20-year-old eventually gives in. Deangelo can be seen removing something from his backside, then Wayne leans down and eats the drugs, police said. “I love you, bro,” Wayne says in the video after consuming the narcotic. A short time later, he was dead. Deangelo said his brother ate about an ounce of cocaine, authorities said. “An older brother is supposed to love his younger brother and take care of him, but… that’s not what happened,” police chief Jon Zumalt told ABC News 4. Deangelo was later charged with drug trafficking and posted bond, police said. He has since vanished and authorities are looking for him. A toxicology report confirmed Wayne died of acute cocaine toxicity. Police now want to charge the older brother with manslaughter.
