Sen. Ken Pruitt

Florida Senate President Ken Pruitt's oldest son died at age 29 early Wednesday in Tallahassee. A witness led police to believe that Kenneth Pruitt Jr. died of a possible overdose at a friend's townhome.

Pruitt died at the home of a friend, Sam Coskey. He told the Miami Herald that he met Pruitt a year and a half ago at Brothers, a Tallahassee bar. The two were there again Tuesday and the friend said Pruitt went home with him and seemed all right.

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