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On the day of the attempted welfare check, ex-Red’s son was found dead

On the day of the attempted welfare check, ex-Red’s son was found dead

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Employees at the Las Vegas building where Pete Rose lived tried to search for the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer hours before Rose’s son Tyler found him dead, according to a 911 call obtained by TMZ.com on Monday.

The 911 call to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department was made by Panorama Towers workers at 2:54 p.m. on September 30, according to TMZ.

The staff told the dispatcher that they heard a loud television in the apartment, but when they knocked on Rose’s door, no one answered.

“There were concerns previously about Pete Rose’s situation because he was shaking and wouldn’t open the door,” a male worker told the 911 operator in the recording. “He was unresponsive, so now he has family and friends out here trying to get onto the property. But we have this one gentleman here claiming to be Metro (police) and we cannot confirm whether he is Metro or not. So.” It’s difficult for us, that’s why we’re calling you.

Reviewjournal.com’s Noble Brigham reported last week that when Tyler Rose told police he believed his father had died, he said he had last spoken to Pete five days earlier and “knew something was wrong, because Rose didn’t respond to his assistant’s text messages.” An acquaintance took Pete to the hospital on September 25 because he was “acting different,” according to police.

Pete’s last public appearance was on September 29th at the Music City sports collecting and autograph show in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Clark County coroner’s office announced that Rose’s cause of death was high blood pressure and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He was 83.

On Monday, the Reds shared their latest Rose tributes via Twitter:

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