(
CNN)
-- Entertainer Michael Jackson has died after being taken to a hospital
on Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest, according to multiple
reports including the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press. CNN
has not confirmed his death.
Jackson, 50, had
been in a coma at the hospital, sources told CNN. Brian Oxman, a
Jackson family attorney, said he was told by brother Randy Jackson that
Michael Jackson collapsed at his home in west Los Angeles Thursday
morning.
Family members were told of the
situation and were either at the hospital or en route, Oxman said. Fire
Capt. Steve Ruda told CNN a 911 call came in from a west Los Angeles
residence at 12:21 p.m.
Ruda said Jackson was
treated and transferred to the UCLA Medical Center. Asked specifics of
the patient's condition, he said he could not discuss them because of
federal privacy laws.
The music icon from
Gary, Indiana, is known as the "King of Pop." Jackson is the seventh of
nine children in a well-known musical family.
At
the medical center, every entrance to the emergency room was blocked by
security guards. Even hospital staffers were not permitted to enter. A
few people stood inside the waiting area, some of them crying.