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Article: Sports briefs
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Gatti's body exhumed for new autopsy
MONTREAL -- Boxer Arturo Gatti's body was exhumed Friday to allow
the Quebec coroner's office to perform a new autopsy at his family's
request. The development comes a day after Brazilian police
classified Gatti's death as a suicide.
Until Thursday, police in the northeastern Brazil city of Recife
considered it a homicide, with his wife as the prime suspect. Now,
police say Gatti hanged himself with a handbag strap from a
staircase column more than seven feet off the ground. Gilles Ethier,
deputy chief coroner of the western part of the Province of Quebec,
said Gatti's family had retained an American pathologist, who will
assist with the autopsy this ...