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One of the personal highlights of my career was bringing the French Film Gardé a Vue (Under Suspicion) to life with the incredibly gifted Gene Hackman. And of course... Unforgiven. Rest in peace, my friend."
Freeman posted on Instagram
I'm pretty confident there is no foul play,
Mendoza said Friday on The Today ShowThere were no apparent signs of foul play."
Mendoza saidBased on our investigation, we can say with some certainty that Gene Hackman's pacemaker recorded its last event on February 17, 2025, ... The investigation is still ongoing, and we are awaiting further details from the final autopsy and toxicology reports, which may take months to complete,
Sheriff Mendoza said during a brief press conference, adding ... according to Deadline
If your heart required a pacemaker, there would certainly be an interruption at that point – and it might be the hallmark of when the death occurred. But it’s not necessarily because some people get a pacemaker to augment things, not necessarily replace things.”
He said later ... He also
I don’t think, you know, there was any indication that, again, there was no trauma or injured themselves, or head injury or brain injury.”
The SheriffInitial findings noted no external trauma to either individual. The manner and cause of death has not been determined. The official results of the autopsy and toxicology reports are pending.”
He also saidGrowing up on his movies was an absolute thrill for me,
Elwes said on Instagram
It sort of slows down the body by blocking these calcium channels that are needed for the heart cells to communicate with each other
Dr Rubinstein said
Levothyroxine overdoses are uncommon and tend to cause symptoms lasting for weeks
Dr Jared Ross, an emergency medicine physician in Missouri, told DailyMail.comIf somebody wanted to hurt themselves by overdosing themselves or others with diltiazem, it is definitely one hundred percent lethal.
Dr Jack Rubinstein, a cardiologist and internal medicine professor at the University of Cincinnati, told DailyMail.comThere are multiple case reports in the medical literature of patients successfully and unsuccessfully committing suicide using diltiazem
Dr Ross added
One of the challenges has been trying to determine that timeline,
Mendoza said, given the couple’s privacy
There’s no indication that anybody was moving about the house or doing anything different, so it’s very hard to determine if they both passed at the same time or how close they passed together,
the sheriff addedI was advised that a more thorough investigation will be completed,
he added,According to the pathologist I think that is a very good assumption, that that was his last day of life."
When asked if that indicated Hackman
The autopsy results, the official results, are going to help steer us in the right direction. That could change, obviously, and we’re not ruling that out,
Mendoza saidThat information was collected, that information was passed to the office of the medical investigator to help them make a determination,
Mendoza saidIt just depends how busy the laboratory is. But we’re hoping it comes sooner than later so we can answer some of these questions and hopefully it’ll help us in our investigation to help determine …the matter and cause of death.”
He continuedThe autopsy is key. That is going to take some time, so I hope a little bit of patience on the family’s part, on everybody’s part, so we can have some answers into these deaths.”
He added