Mark Salling Cause Of Death: ‘Glee’ Actor Dead At 35

Update - 1/30/18 2:15 p.m. EST: Earlier on Tuesday morning, around 3 a.m. local time, one of Mark Salling’s family members had visited the Los Angeles Police Department station to report him as a missing person. Police were asked to do a “welfare check” on Mark Salling, which eventually led them to find his body at a local baseball field, where he’d been dead for a little while, according to TMZ.

The detectives working the scene are making sure there was no foul play involved in the death, though they’re saying Salling likely died from suicide by hanging.

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Mark Salling, who starred on Fox’s musical drama series “Glee,” is dead from an apparent suicide. His official cause of death has not been confirmed.

TMZ reported on Tuesday that his body was found near the Los Angeles River by a little league field and creek, which is around where he lived in Sunland, California.

The exact way in which the actor died has not yet been revealed, but TMZ reports he might have died “after hanging himself.”

If this was a suicide, it might not have been his first attempt, as the 35-year-old actor, who was awaiting sentencing in a child pornography case in which he pleaded guilty to possession, had cut his wrists in August, TMZ reported, though his lawyer denied the claims.

Salling was set to hear his sentencing for his legal case in March, where he was expected to get up to seven years in prison because of a plea deal he took in December after prosecutors reportedly found 50,000 pornographic images of underage kids in his possession. Along with serving four to seven years in jail, Salling had to register as a sex offender and stay 100 feet away from schoolyards, parks, public swimming pools, playgrounds and video arcade venues as part of the plea deal.

This is not the first death to have rocked the “Glee” cast, as star Cory Monteith died in 2013, while the show was still airing, from a combination of alcohol and heroin in his system.

Monteith had an addiction issue and tried multiple times to get off of drugs, but his last time off the wagon proved fatal. The coroner concluded that the overdose was not on purpose and that Monteith’s death was accidental after he mixed too many different drugs together, along with alcohol.

Many of Monteith’s fellow “Glee” cast members took to social media after his death to share their love of him and stories of their time together, but none have done so far yet for Salling.