FILE - This Jan. 10, 2010, file photo shows New England Patriots linebacker Junior Seau before an NFL wild-card playoff football game in Foxborough, Mass. Seau has driven off a cliff in Southern California and is hospitalized with undisclosed injuries. Carlsbad police say the 12-time Pro Bowler's Cadillac SUV was found on the beach 30 feet below the roadside.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
If you're a football fan you know the name very well. Junior Seau was found dead in his California home earlier today. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Rest in peace Junior Seau.
Former NFL star Junior Seau was found shot to death at his home Wednesday morning in what police said appeared to be a suicide. He was 43.
Police Chief Frank McCoy said Seau's girlfriend reported finding him unconscious with a gunshot wound to the chest and lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful. A gun was found near him, McCoy said.
Seau's mother appeared before reporters, weeping uncontrollably.
"I don't understand ... I'm shocked," Luisa Seau cried out.
Her son gave no indication of a problem when she spoke to him by phone earlier this week, she said.
"He's joking to me, he called me a 'homegirl,'" she said.
Seau was a standout linebacker with the University of Southern California before going to the San Diego Chargers, whom he led to the Super Bowl following the 1994 season.
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