By CURT ANDERSON, Related Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida are nonetheless investigating the demise final month {of professional} wrestling icon Hulk Hogan from what the health worker concluded was a coronary heart assault.
The Clearwater Police Division mentioned in a press release Thursday that the “distinctive nature of this case has required us to interview a number of witnesses and search medical data from quite a lot of suppliers, and our detectives proceed to try this.”
Hogan, whose actual identify was Terry Bollea, died July 24 at age 71 at a hospital after paramedics and police rushed to his beachfront residence in Clearwater following a 911 name. That decision, and police physique digicam video of the scene, has not but been launched because the investigation continues.
“All of this takes time,” the police assertion mentioned. “Till the investigation is accomplished, no data associated to the case, together with physique digicam footage, might be launched.”
Police have beforehand mentioned there was no proof of foul play in Hogan’s demise, so it’s not clear precisely what the police probe is trying into aside from medical data. Hogan beforehand had leukemia and atrial fibrillation, an irregular coronary heart rhythm, in response to the health worker’s report that concluded the reason for demise was pure.
Investigators have been working with Hogan’s household, together with his son Nick and daughter Brooke, the assertion mentioned.
“We plan to fulfill with the household and temporary them on the case thus far, and we’ll share the outcomes of the investigation with the household previous to closing the case and releasing it to the general public and media,” the police assertion added.
No timetable for public launch of the findings was given.
Hogan was maybe the largest star in WWE’s lengthy historical past, recognized for each his larger-than-life persona and his wrestling exploits. He was the primary draw for the primary WrestleMania in 1985 and was a fixture for years, going through everybody from Andre The Big and Randy Savage to The Rock and even WWE co-founder Vince McMahon.
Hogan received not less than six WWE championships and was inducted into the Corridor of Fame in 2005 and reinstated there in 2018. He had been faraway from the Corridor of Fame in 2015 after he was recorded making racial slurs towards Blacks, for which he apologized.
Hogan was to be cremated but it surely wasn’t clear Thursday if that had occurred but. A well-attended however non-public funeral service was held Aug. 5 at a church in Indian Rocks Seaside, Florida.
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