Overview
- The North Carolina medical examiner determined the 29-year-old grandmaster died from accidental poisoning caused by a mixed-substance overdose.
- Toxicology identified methamphetamine, amphetamine, and mitragynine with opioid-like effects in his system.
- Media reports citing People and TMZ relayed the official findings roughly three months after his October 2025 death.
- Police responded in Charlotte on October 21, 2025, found him unconscious, and paramedics later pronounced him dead at the scene.
- Naroditsky was a leading blitz specialist and a popular online coach and commentator with nearly 500,000 YouTube subscribers.