Michael Nance dies; Season 8 contestant on TV’s ‘Bachelorette’ was 31
Former "Bachelorette" contestant Michael Nance was found unresponsive at a South Austin residence on Monday. Police pronounced him dead less than an hour later. Credit: ABC via Getty Images / Craig Sjodin
AUSTIN, Texas — A former contestant on “The Bachelorette” has died after police found him unresponsive at a South Austin residence.
An Austin Police Department spokeswoman says officers were sent to the residence at 2:10 a.m. Monday in reference to a reported unresponsive man and found 31-year-old Michael Nance unconscious. He was pronounced dead shortly before 3 a.m.
Spokeswoman Anna Sabana says the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office will have to determine what caused Nance’s death, but investigators do not consider the death suspicious.
Nance was a contestant in the eighth season of “The Bachelorette” in 2012, but was eliminated in the fourth of the season’s 10 weeks.
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