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Former MLB player Jeremy Giambi was found dead nearly six months ago.
We are finally learning the details that led to his death inside his parents’ Southern California home. His mother found him on February 9.
47-year-old Giambi received an autopsy that confirmed the manner of death was suicide by shooting himself in the chest.
Giambi used a Winchester Model 94AE Level action repeating rifle, the report says.
He also left behind a suicide note.
Although Giambi had addictive drug use, including methamphetamine and Percocet throughout the ’90s and parts of the 2000s, it is not believed to have been using drugs around the time of his suicide.
Sources say that Giambi hasn’t been the same since he was struck in the head by a foul ball last year while working as a pitching coach.
The foul ball caused a broken zygomatic bone.
Giambi “had not been the same since and was very negative, emotional and paranoid since the head injury,” sources revealed.
Foul play was not expected.
Giambi most notably played for four teams throughout a major league career that spanned from 1998 through 2003.
He was a career .263 hitter with 52 home runs.
