Sergio Brown‘s household is going through an unimaginable tragedy.
Amid the continued seek for the lacking ex-NFL participant in Illinois, his mother Myrtle Simmons Brown has been discovered dead, the {Cook} County Medical Examiner’s Workplace confirmed to E! Information on Sept 18. She was 73.
Myrtle’s explanation for loss of life has been declared as a number of accidents resulting from assault. The way of loss of life was dominated as murder.
Officers discovered Myrtle’s physique on Sept. 16, the identical day she and Sergio had been reported lacking by household, in accordance with a Maywood Police Division press launch.
Myrtle was found “unresponsive close to a creek to the rear of her residence.” Sergio, who stepped away from the NFL in 2016, has not been situated.
The Maywood Police Division are investigating the incident, per the press launch.
Nick Brown, Sergio’s brother, mourned the lack of his mother on Instagram Sept. 17, thanking supporters for “all your outreach, assist, love and condolences.”