Erik Cowie, one of the many zookeepers featured on Netflix’s Tiger King, is dead, TMZ reported on Tuesday, September 7.NYPD confirmed to Us Weekly that police responded to a call reporting an unconscious male on Friday, September 3.
The Oklahoma native, 52, was pronounced dead on the scene. The Medical Examiner has not yet determined the cause of death.“The identification of the deceased is pending family notification,” the police told Us.In May, Cowie was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol but failed to appear for his sentencing.He appeared in multiple episodes of the Netflix hit, which came out in March 2020, as one of the many caretakers that worked for Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic.
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