Fla.: Police release final report from investigation into Hulk Hogan’s death
OAN Staff Katherine Mosack and Jenna Lee
3:04 PM – Monday, June 8, 2026
The Clearwater Police Department has completed its investigation into the death of Terry Bollea, also known as pro wrestler Hulk Hogan.
On Friday, the department released a 72-page final report on Hogan’s July 2025 death at the age of 71.
First responders received a cardiac arrest call at 9:51 a.m. Responding officers found the WWE star lying on his back on the floor. He had been home with his home health aide, Dana Swinton, his wife, Sky Daily, and his occupational therapist, Justin McCamey, when he stopped breathing. According to the aide and the therapist, he was talking and eating yogurt before suffering the medical episode.
McCamey and Swinton found Hogan not breathing. When McCamey found no pulse, Daily called 911, saying, “My husband, it doesn’t seem like he’s breathing.”
McCamey spoke to authorities outside the home, noting that this visit was only his second time seeing Hogan, but that Hogan was in “very poor health” since having surgery. The report said he had “approximately 20-30 various knee, hip, and back surgeries over the years.
Daily told police that her husband had spinal fusion surgery on his neck about six weeks earlier, in addition to cardiac surgery to fix a valve three weeks before his death.
The former wrestler was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which was being treated with chemotherapy.
An autopsy ordered by Hogan’s son determined he died “exclusively from compelling natural disease, with no reasonable traumatic or terminal toxicologic contributions.”
“The investigation into the death of Terry Bollea is now closed, and classified as an attended natural death,” the Clearwater Police Department in Florida shared in a statement, explicitly ruling out foul play or criminal negligence.
The wrestler made an appearance at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July 2024 to support President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Delivering a high-energy, wrestling-style speech just before Trump accepted the nomination, Hogan praised him as both his “hero” and as a “gladiator.”
Following Hogan’s passing the next year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) honored the icon by ordering U.S. and Florida flags to be flown at half-staff on August 1, 2025, roughly a week after his death.
Hulk’s death is attributed to a potential error during one of his surgeries, when a surgeon reportedly severed his phrenic nerve, which is essential to the ability to breathe as it controls the diaphragm.
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