Overview
- Palm Beach County authorities have reported Claude Lemieux's death as a suicide, and his body was found in the rear warehouse of the family’s Andros Home furniture showroom on May 28.
- On May 30 the Lemieux family announced they will donate his brain to Boston University's UNITE Brain Bank to support research into chronic traumatic encephalopathy and other effects of repetitive head trauma.
- The family granted the CTE center permission to identify Lemieux by name in any published findings and asked the public and press to treat the loss with care and compassion.
- Florida law limits release of medical-examiner records in suicide cases, so forensic details remain restricted while the postmortem research proceeds.
- CTE can only be diagnosed after microscopic examination of brain tissue, so researchers may take time to report results and no connection between CTE and Lemieux's death should be assumed at this stage.