{"id":100216,"date":"2025-08-21T20:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100216\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:51:06","slug":"police-in-florida-continue-to-investigate-wrestling-icon-hulk-hogans-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100216\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in Florida continue to investigate wrestling icon Hulk Hogan’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Police in Florida are still investigating the death last month of professional wrestling icon Hulk Hogan from what the medical examiner concluded was a heart attack.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Clearwater Police Department said in a statement Thursday that the \u201cunique nature of this case has required us to interview multiple witnesses and seek medical records from a variety of providers, and our detectives continue to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, died July 24 at age 71<\/a> at a hospital after paramedics and police rushed to his beachfront home in Clearwater following a 911 call. That call, and police body camera video of the scene, has not yet been released as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this takes time,\u201d the police statement said. \u201cUntil the investigation is completed, no records related to the case, including body camera footage, can be released.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police have previously said there was no evidence of foul play in Hogan\u2019s death, so it\u2019s not clear exactly what the police probe is looking into other than medical records. Hogan previously had leukemia and atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm, according to the medical examiner\u2019s report that concluded the cause of death was natural.<\/p>\n

Investigators have been working with Hogan\u2019s family, including his son Nick and daughter Brooke, the statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe plan to meet with the family and brief them on the case to this point, and we will share the results of the investigation with the family prior to closing the case and releasing it to the public and media,\u201d the police statement added.<\/p>\n

No timetable for public release of the findings was given.<\/p>\n

Hogan was perhaps the biggest star in WWE\u2019s long history<\/a>, known for both his larger-than-life personality and his wrestling exploits. He was the main draw for the first WrestleMania in 1985 and was a fixture for years, facing everyone from Andre The Giant and Randy Savage to The Rock and even WWE co-founder Vince McMahon.<\/p>\n

Hogan won at least six WWE championships and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2005 and reinstated there in 2018. He had been removed from the Hall of Fame in 2015 after he was recorded making racial slurs against Blacks, for which he apologized.<\/p>\n

Hogan was to be cremated but it wasn\u2019t clear Thursday if that had happened yet. A well-attended but private funeral service<\/a> was held Aug. 5 at a church in Largo, Florida.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Hogan\u2019s daughter Brooke said on Instagram that cremation was postponed \u201cbecause of family questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all of the speculation and uncertainty of my dad\u2019s death, I want to personally offer to pay for an autopsy if that\u2019s what it takes to get it done. My dad\u2019s dignity and legacy deserves it,\u201d she wrote. It is not clear if an autopsy was conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Police in Florida are still investigating the death last month of professional wrestling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4224,88,2822,2808,793,15520,28329,4381,67138,67137,795,28330,28592],"class_list":{"0":"post-100216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dwayne-johnson","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fl-state-wire","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-heart-attack","14":"tag-hulk-hogan","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-randy-savage","17":"tag-terry-bollea","18":"tag-u-s-news","19":"tag-vince-mcmahon","20":"tag-wrestling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}