Former WEC and Bellator MMA fighter Blas Avena was found dead at the age of 32 inside his apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday. According to a TMZ.com report, Avena’s death is being investigated by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department as a suicide.
“Arriving police and medical personnel located an adult male who was pronounced deceased at the scene,” a spokesman for the Las Vegas Metro Police Department told TMZ. “As of now, the death is being investigated as a suicide.”
Additionally, the TMZ report stated that an autopsy was conducted earlier this week, however “officials won’t name an official cause of death until further tests are completed.”