There was no alcohol or drugs found in Junior Seau’s system when he shot and killed himself at his home in May, according to the autopsy report released by the San Diego County Medical’s Examiner’s Office on Monday. The girlfriend of the former NFL All-Pro linebacker found his body with a single gunshot wound to [...]
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