Report: Arturo Gatti’s body ‘suspended and hanged’; boxer may have committed suicide!
AP-Former Jersey City boxing champ Arturo Gatti, seen here in his last fight, was “suspended and hanged,” indicating he may have committed suicide, according to a Brazilian newspaper that cites his autopsy report
A Brazilian newspaper is reporting that the autopsy on former Jersey City boxing champ Arturo Gatti says his body was “suspended and hanged, indicating he may have committed suicide.”
The autopsy report, the Jornal do Comercio said, also said that “murder or accidental death” could not be ruled out. There was no explanation for “accidental death.”
Police have said they are certain Gatti’s 23-year-old wife strangled the boxer with her purse strap as he drunkenly slept July 11, but the autopsy report raises some doubts.
Gatti was found dead in the apartment he was renting with wife, Amanda Rodrigues, in the Brazilian seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.
Paula Cysneiros, the spokeswoman for the medical examiners office that performed the autopsy, would not confirm the newspaper’s report.
Police arrested Rodrigues on suspicion of murdering the former two-division champion. She maintains her innocence and is being held in a prison in Recife. She has not been charged — according to Brazilian law, police have until this Wednesday to hand over their findings to prosecutors, who will decide if charges are to be filed.
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