CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES

Dr. Dre’s 20-year-old son, who was found dead in August at the family’s Woodland Hills home, died of an accidental drug overdose, coroner’s officials said Friday.

A toxicology test on the rap impresario’s son revealed that Andre R. Young Jr. died of “morphine and heroin intoxication,” said Ed Winter, assistant chief of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. It was ruled an accidental death, he said.

Young’s mother found him dead at the family’s home at 10:24 a.m. Aug. 23. An autopsy was completed a few days later, but the determination of the cause of death was delayed pending the outcome of a “gamut of tests, including toxicology,” Winter said.

-- Ruben Vives