Eugene Thomas King Jr., who held Paula Deen at gunpoint during a 1987 bank robbery, was found dead of natural causes in his Brooklyn apartment at age 75.The New York City Medical Examiner Office confirmed King suffered from hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease when he was discovered on a Thursday night.King had publicly defended
Paula Deen in 2013 after she faced backlash for using a racial slur to describe him during the robbery that led to his 25-year sentence.