Overview
- Duckworth’s mother, Joni, publicly confirmed his death on Facebook and said a cause has not been determined.
- Officers entered his North Dakota apartment after a downstairs neighbor reported water leaking through the ceiling and found his body in the bathroom, with police tracing the leak to the bathtub.
- The Grand Forks Police Department says there appear to be no signs of foul play and that the case remains under investigation while autopsy and toxicology tests are completed.
- Duckworth rose to fame on MTV’s The Real World: Key West and competed on six seasons of The Challenge, winning Cutthroat and Rivals, and later worked as a middle and high school teacher.
- Former castmates and fans have posted tributes online, and some outlets reported an unconfirmed claim that he recently had surgery which officials have not linked to his cause of death.