One of Joe Exotic’s Tiger King adversaries has passed away. According to reports, Erik Cowie (pictured above), who was a zookeeper on the hit Netflix series, was found dead on Friday evening, face down in a bed inside a New York City apartment.
He was just 53 years old. It’s not clear who lived in the apartment he was found inside, but the late zookeeper was apparently just visiting the Big Apple; he has been known to live and worked in Oklahoma in recent years.
Despite the rather mysterious circumstances, TMZ reported that there was “nothing suspicious about the death” and that “no drugs were found on the scene.” A toxicology test will likely still be performed as authorities attempt to discover cause of death.
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