CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — The Clearwater Police Department announced Friday that it has completed its investigation into the death of WWE legend Hulk Hogan.
According to their findings, Clearwater police determined Hogan, whose legal name is Terry Bollea, died of an attended natural death.
“Under the circumstances, it fell to the Clearwater Police Department to address, challenge or validate some of the concerns in the case,” the authorities wrote. “Investigators had to interview multiple witnesses and review various recordings to answer questions central to our inquiry.”
The department also released a 72-page report on Hogan’s death, as well as interviews with his occupational therapist. In the report, testimonies from various officers described what happened when Clearwater police were called to the former wrestling star’s home on July 24, 2025.
The initial incident report stated that officers responded to the home on Eldorado Avenue at about 10:21 a.m. ET for a medical call. When officers entered the home, they found Hogan lying on the floor on his back, appearing pale with no signs of life.
His home health aide, Dana Swinton, told police that she, Hogan’s wife Sky Daily, and his occupational therapist Justin McCamey were at the home when he stopped breathing.
“I got here at 7,” Swinton told police, adding that he seemed “OK” at the time.
McCamey said he arrived at the home at about 9:30 a.m. ET and was there for 10 minutes before Hogan began having his medical episode. Both he and the home health aide said the WWE icon was talking and ate yogurt before the medical episode.
When McCamey and Swinton returned, Daily noticed that her husband was not breathing. McCamey tried to get Hogan’s vitals but did not detect a pulse.
Daily called 911 and said, “My husband, it doesn’t seem like he’s breathing.”
The home medical staff performed CPR on the retired wrestler until first responders arrived. According to the report, Hogan was taken to Morton Plant Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:17 p.m.
The report also stated that McCamey had been his occupational therapist for two weeks and that this was his second visit with his patient.
He told police Hogan was in “very poor health” since having surgery. The report stated the ex-wrestler had “approximately 20-30 various knee, hip, and back surgeries over the years.
Daily also told police that her husband had a spinal fusion surgery on his neck about six weeks before his death and a cardiac surgery three weeks before to fix a valve. He was also diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and had been undergoing chemotherapy.
Hogan was 71 at the time of his death. A cremation approval report from the District Six Medical Examiner’s Office described it as a natural death caused by a cardiac arrest. It also noted the wrestling superstar had a history of “atrial fibrillation,” an irregular heartbeat in the upper chambers of the heart, and leukemia.
A private autopsy arranged by Daily and Hogan’s son, Nick, found that he died “exclusively from compelling natural disease, with no reasonable traumatic or terminal toxicologic
contributions.”
After reviewing all the evidence, Clearwater police determined that the death was natural and that there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
“We want to thank the family of Mr. Bollea — Sky, Nick and Brooke — and their attorney, Kevin Hayslett, for their cooperation,” the department said. “Their willingness to allow our investigators access to very personal information, at a time when they were grieving and struggling, was extremely helpful.”
The authorities added, “We would not have had the legal justification to obtain much of the information without their cooperation.”
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