Using his key card, Saget entered his room at 2:17 a.m., hanging a "Do Not Disturb" placard on his doorknob and locking the door from the inside. Sagets family told TMZ on February 9, 2022, 'Now that we have the final conclusions from the authorities investigation, we felt it only proper that the fans hear those conclusions directly from us. Authorities who have seen the footage tell PEOPLE that nothing seemed out of the ordinary: Saget showed no sign of distress. While Bob lost Gay to autoimmune disease when she was 47, he lost his older sister Andrea due to a brain aneurism at the age of 35 in 1985. Gay Saget, the former school teacher from Philadelphia, died years ago, following her scleroderma diagnosis. 2 Bob Saget had two sisters growing up Did Bob Saget die on his late sister, Gay's, birthday Gay Saget was born on January 9, 1947. His sister, Gay, died years earlier following a diagnosis of scleroderma. The last time Saget was caught on surveillance video, he was seen exiting the elevator of the ninth floor and walking down the long hallway towards his room. Incidentally, it was also Sagets late sister Gays 75th birth anniversary. BOB SAGET passed suddenly on Sunday, January 9, 2022. "There are still a lot of unanswered questions."įor more on the Bob Saget's shocking death, subscribe now to PEOPLE or pick up this week's issue, on newsstands Friday. Actor and comedian Bob Saget had Covid-19 but died as a result of 'blunt head trauma,' according to the autopsy report released today by the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office. Police believe that a groggy Bob Saget regained consciousness and stumbled into bed, where he again lost consciousness and died. "It's definitely an unusual case," an Orange County Sheriff's deputy says. He was a board member of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, and over the years his fundraising efforts raised more than 40 million for. PEOPLE spoke with several involved in the investigation of Saget's death. Saget’s sister Gay died at 47 of scleroderma. Additionally, the comedian's autopsy indicated he had severe fractures to the back of his head and around his eyes when he died.
The mystery deepened when Chief Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany, MD later revealed in the autopsy that Saget's death was "the result of blunt head trauma," ruling the manner of his passing an accident not tied to any illicit drugs or toxins.
9, raising many questions on how the beloved actor could have died so suddenly.įor more on Bob Saget, listen below to our daily podcast on PEOPLE Every Day. He was a ball happy, positive energy."īut by the time the weekend was over, Saget was found dead in his hotel room bed on Jan. "When people asked for selfies, he would run over and grab their phones to take the pictures with them, joking the whole time. "He was cracking jokes, waving to people in the lobby," a hotel employee tells PEOPLE in this week's issue. (CNN) Actor and comedian Bob Saget had Covid-19 but died as a result of 'blunt head trauma,' according to the autopsy report released today by the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office. 7, the 65-year-old comedian seemed to have the vitality of a man half his age. Saget’s next-of-kin had not been notified and Homicide Unit detectives had not even arrived at the scene.When Bob Saget checked into room 962 at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando Grande Lakes in Florida on Jan. She died when she was 47 from scleroderma, a disease that Im part of finding the cure, as a proud board member. The new report said that the Silva and Reed leaks “resulted in an influx of media inquiries at a time when Mr. The news made its way to the public before Saget’s widow, Kelly Rizzo, or his children were informed of the comedian’s sudden death. (Saget performed at the Ponte Verde Concert Hall in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday, January 8, and was discovered dead in his hotel room on Sunday, Jan 9.) BOB SAGET passed suddenly on Sunday, January 9, 2022. Reed was off-duty at the time, but he heard about the incident and spread the news to friends who had seen one of Saget’s recent stand-up comedy shows.
He told his brother about the Full House star’s death, who then wrote about it on Twitter. Silva was one of the responding officers to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orlando, Grande Lakes. The specifics of the disciplinary action taken against the two men have not been disclosed. Emiliano Silva and Steven Reed have been found to have violated the Orange County Sheriff’s Office’s department dissemination of information directive. The two Florida police deputies who leaked word about Bob Saget’s death have been officially disciplined, according to an Orlando-based news outlet.