He was a successful actor but he wanted more from life...
Williams was best known for the role of Omar Little on "The Wire. Of Omar, Williams said:
Omar Little was a sawed-off shotgun-toting Baltimore stickup man. “Omar is this dark-skinned outspoken man in the hood who didn’t care what anyone thought of him,” Williams told the New York Times in 2017. “He is everything I wished I could be.”
From:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/michael-k-williams-star-wire-203242485.html
Perhaps these lofty aspirations are what led Michael Kenneth Williams to overdose on heroin. share