Overview
- Williams collapsed near the end of a tag-team match at Enjoy Wrestling’s Five Years event at Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale on Saturday, Sept. 5, and was taken to a hospital after the incident.
- Venue doctors began CPR immediately, arriving paramedics performed chest compressions and used an AED, and Williams was transported by ambulance from the scene.
- Enjoy Wrestling halted the show, canceled the remainder of the event and sent attendees home while staff and Williams’ partner, Jesse “The Blade” Guilmette, waited at the hospital for updates.
- The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Williams’ death to media outlets on Sunday and officials say a formal autopsy will determine the cause amid reports that he hit his head and that on-site medics observed symptoms consistent with a cardiac event.
- Williams was 48 and had a dual career as the founding guitarist of Every Time I Die and as a professional wrestler who rose to wider notice in AEW, prompting widespread tributes from peers in music and wrestling as the communities await official findings.