Overview

• Chuck Zito, a close friend and former bodyguard of Arturo Gatti Sr., said on Instagram that Gatti Jr. was found hanging on Tuesday in an apartment in Mexico.
• Gatti Jr.’s longtime coach, Moe Latif, confirmed the death on social media as outlets including TVA Nouvelles, The Ring, and others reported the news.
• TVA Nouvelles reports he was in Mexico with his mother, Amanda Rodrigues, and that a neighbor discovered him.
• Officials have not announced an official cause of death, and media accounts say the case remains under investigation.
• The death echoes his father’s 2009 case in Brazil, which was ruled a suicide but remains disputed, as tributes note the teen’s amateur boxing ambitions and mentorship from Mike Tyson.