Family
King's mother, Coretta Scott King, died on January 30, 2006, at the age of 78. Dexter's elder sister, Yolanda, collapsed at the home of her best friend, Philip Madison Jones, on May 15, 2007. She could not be revived and died at the age of 51. Her family believes she had a heart condition.
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