Brown was caught in a barn fire in Maryland, where he died on Feb. 24.

Disturbing new incident details revealed 4 months after The Wire actor Bobby J. Brown died in barn fire

Brown was caught in a barn fire in Maryland, where he died on Feb. 24.

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- *The Wire* actor Bobby J. Brown's cause of death has been revealed in a disturbing autopsy report.

- * *obtained the report* from the *Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

- The actor died after reportedly being caught in a barn fire in February, with incident details describing his injuries in detail.

Disturbing new incident details have been revealed surrounding the death of *The Wire** *actor Bobby J. Brown.

Following the 62-year-old actor's Feb. 24 death in a Maryland barn fire, ** obtained an autopsy report from the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which described in detail injuries that Brown sustained inside the burning structure.

The report, by Chief Medical Examiner Stephanie Dean, described Brown's body as having been recovered as "partially charred remains," while he wore a "burned white t-shirt, burned black jacket," and a "burned black t-shirt."

It reported that the "vast majority" of his hair was "singed off," and described "thermal fractures of the ankles" with his skin "absent from the left chest."

'The Wire' actor Bobby J. Brown.

Brown was "found unresponsive in an accidental fire in his barn," per Dean's notes, with "up to fourth-degree burns to the body" and "soot deposition in the airway." She also reported that there was "71 percent carbon monoxide saturation of the blood" in his body at the time of his death.

Additionally, Dean found that no drugs were present in the actor's system at the time of his death in the barn fire.

The office previously confirmed that Brown died from diffuse thermal injury and smoke inhalation, and his death was found to be accidental.

Brown's daughter, Reina, also spoke out about her father's death shortly after the incident occurred.

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“I was sound asleep. I had gone to bed about two hours before,” Reina told EW's* *sister publication, PEOPLE, at the time.

She continued, “My little sister [was] freaking out, saying that Dad's gone and that he got caught up in a barn fire, and I'm like, ‘What do you mean?'"

Reina said that her father called for help and requested a fire extinguisher to help put out the flames before he died.

“I literally went outside and put both my feet on my front walk,” Reina continued. “It's cold, and I stood out in my bare feet in a nightgown because I wanted to make sure I was really awake. I did that to make sure I was in actual reality and not dreaming this up, and then I did it for a grounding exercise.”

Actor Bobby J. Brown.

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She called her father an "amazing human being" and praised him for being "a pillar in the community, and he's going to be missed by a lot of people."

In addition to his role as Officer Bobby Brown across 12 episodes of HBO's beloved drama *The Wire *from 2002-2008, Brown also appeared in several other film and TV projects, including *Veep*, *We Own This City*, and *Miss Virginia.*

His final on-screen credit came in a 2023 short film called *Mailman*, while he's also set to appear posthumously in the upcoming miniseries *The Sessions.*

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