Axl Rotten’s Cause of Death Announced, More Details on Where and How He Was Found
– The Baltimore Sun reports that ECW Original Axl Rotten, 44, died of an accidental overdose, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore.
A police report said Rotten was found unconscious and not breathing on the bathroom floor of a McDonald’s restaurant in the Linthicum neighborhood. Rotten was found on the floor of a stall, and he had pulled down the infant changing table and placed drug paraphernalia on it. A broken burnt tablespoon with “crystalline residue” was found. They also found an unlabeled pill bottle with capsules of a “brownish substance,” believed to be heroin, on top of a paper towel dispenser.
Rotten was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:09pm that day, Thursday, February 4th. They do not know how long he was in the bathroom before he was found.
For those who missed it, Rotten tweeted the following the day he died:
The way I do things may not be the way you do things but you will find out there is only 1 way. My away! #AxlsTruth
— AXL ROTTEN (@AxlRottenECW) February 4, 2016
