SAGINAW – Media reports say a Canadian junior hockey player whose body was found in Michigan this week died from asphyxiation, which police believe to have been self-inflicted.
The reports say autopsy results for Terry Trafford, 20, were released Thursday – two days after the missing athlete was found in an SUV in the parking lot of a Walmart store in Saginaw Township.
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Trafford, who played for the Saginaw Spirit, had last been seen about 9:30 a.m. on March 3 at the Dow Event Center, the team’s home arena.
At one point in the search, police said they believed Trafford, a centre with the Spirit, might have left the state to return to his hometown of Toronto.
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His girlfriend previously told The Saginaw News that he was devastated after the team sent him home “for partying on a road trip.”
The Ontario Hockey League postponed the Spirit’s game on Wednesday so the team could mourn his death.
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