The shocking cause of death for Olympic gold medalist Tori Bowie has been revealed, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The American track and field star was found dead at her Florida home on May 2 after a welfare check conducted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. She was only 32 years old.
Tragic details of Bowie’s death were revealed with the release of the coroner’s report obtained by TMZ.
According to the report, the Olympic athlete died of childbirth complications and was believed to be about eight months pregnant at the time of her death.
The report found that Bowie was “in labor” when she died at home.
The details seemed to support Bowie’s neighbors’ statements about the athlete prior to her death. A neighbor assumed Bowie was pregnant after the track star put on noticeably heavier weight around her midsection.
“She was a thin woman and she looked like she had half a basketball under her shirt,” a neighbor from Orlando’s Bowie neighborhood told the paper. Daily mail.
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Another neighbor claimed to have witnessed a disturbing scene between Bowie and her boyfriend just before her death.
“I came out of my house one time and she was standing there on the street with a knife in her hand, yelling at a man,” says Bowie’s neighbor Zehra Ugurlu told the outlet. “A family friend of mine managed to talk to her and calm her down, but it was scary, it made my daughters uncomfortable.”
Bowie’s neighbor added that “her life has been erratic and unhealthy”.
Bowie became an American hero at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Mississippi-born athlete brought home three medals from Brazil, including a gold medal for her contribution to the U.S. women’s relay team’s 4×100 win.
The following year, Bowie was named the world’s fastest woman after literally flying past the competition at the 2017 IAAF World Championships. Bowie clocked a time of 10.85 in the 100-meter dash.