The Whitman County (Washington) Coroner's office has officially ruled Tyler Hilinski's death a suicide, it announced Thursday.
Hilinski, who was expected to be the starting quarterback at Washington State next season, was found dead Tuesday afternoon. He was 21. There was a rifle and a handwritten suicide note beside him, police said. The official cause of death, according to the coroner's office, was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Pullman police are in the process of interviewing those close to Hilinski to try to determine a potential reason for his suicide, according to Pullman police chief Gary Jenkins.