Overview
- Officers entered Duckworth’s apartment after a downstairs neighbor reported water leaking through the ceiling and found him unresponsive in an overflowing bathtub.
- Grand Forks police say there were no visible signs of trauma and they have not identified a cause of death while the investigation continues.
- Autopsy and toxicology tests are pending and will determine the official cause and manner of death.
- Fellow reality-TV contestants paid public tribute to Duckworth, with Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio calling him “the brother I never had” in an Instagram video.
- Duckworth was a longtime MTV figure who rose to fame on The Real World: Key West and won multiple seasons of The Challenge, and his family have issued statements about his passing.