Freshly released police documents shed light on Hulk Hogan’s final moments before his death at 71.
The WWE icon died last year, with his death officially ruled a heart attack. Even so, police conducted a review, which has now ended with authorities finding no signs of foul play or criminal activity.
The Clearwater Police Department confirmed on Friday (June 5) that the case had been closed.
It said in a statement, per NBC News: “Under the circumstances, it fell to the Clearwater Police Department to address, challenge, or validate some of the concerns in the case.
“Investigators had to interview multiple witnesses and review various recordings to answer questions central to our inquiry.”
Following the conclusion of the inquiry, the department released a 72-page report.
Included in the file is an account from Hogan’s occupational therapist, Justin McCamey, who was present when the wrestler died.
“We knew this was gonna be happening,” McCamey told an officer who responded to the 911 call on the day of the celebrity wrestler’s death. He went on to recall that Hogan’s ‘chest wasn’t elevating’ and that he just ‘stopped breathing’.
Police also interviewed Dana Swinton, Hogan’s home health aide, who was also there at the time.
Describing his condition in the days leading up to his death, she said: “I mean, he wasn’t up as [much as] he was Saturday and Sunday when I had him, but he was still talking this morning, a little low, a little mumbly.
“I got him in the chair, he ate a little yogurt, he was fine. Set him up there, like… set him up in a chair… where he was asleep, but he was breathing.”
However, she explained that when McCamey stepped away to use the bathroom and then returned, they both realized something had changed.
Swinston recalled (as per US Weekly): “The patient was in the chair. By the time he came to do the vitals for the visit he’s on, there was no pulse.
“[Hogan] hasn’t been moved, I’d say, he probably got down… probably… I’d say he got down here probably at 8:30-8:45, which we got down here, he’s been down here.”
McCamey also told officers that Hogan’s health had deteriorated after surgery shortly before his death. He added that the 71-year-old had undergone ‘approximately 20-30 various knee, hip and back surgeries over the years’.
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