The teenage son of late boxing star Arturo Gatti was discovered useless on Tuesday by obvious hanging, very similar to his father was in 2009.
Arturo Gatti Jr. “was found hanging in an apartment in Mexico,” in keeping with Gatti’s former bodyguard, Chuck Zito. The youthful Gatti was simply 17.
Gatti Jr.’s loss of life was additionally confirmed by Moe Latif, his longtime boxing coach.
“It is unfortunately not a rumor or a joke. Arturo is gone,” he wrote on his Instagram Story. “I’d appreciate if you stop reaching out at this time.”
Gatti Sr.’s spouse, Amanda Rodrigues Gatti, discovered the retired athlete useless on July 11, 2009, in a apartment they rented in her native Brazil, the place they’d been staying for a second honeymoon. He was 37 on the time of his loss of life.
Brazilian police rapidly arrested the 23-year-old widow, who they initially believed had used a handbag strap to strangle the athlete. Rodrigues Gatti was accused of homicide however launched as soon as the loss of life was dominated a suicide.
Gatti’s good friend and supervisor Pat Lynch convened a group of unbiased medical and prison consultants in North Jersey — the place Gatti lived throughout his boxing tenure — who undertook 10 months of investigation.
In September 2011, they discounted officers’ findings, telling ESPN they believed Rodrigues Gatti and one other particular person killed Gatti collectively, given the $7 million property he’d depart behind.
Forensic scientist Brent E. Turvey instructed ESPN Gatti was seemingly “attacked by another person that resulted in a blunt force laceration to the back of his head and then he was strangled.”
The junior welterweight champ, who had a historical past of drunk driving and violent altercations exterior the ring, was additionally recognized for his rivalry with Micky Ward, who was performed by Mark Wahlberg in David O. Russell’s two-time Oscar winner, “The Fighter.”
