Security guard wrongly suspected in Atlanta bombing dies

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2007

ATLANTA, United States (AFP) — Richard Jewell, the security guard who was wrongly linked to the bombing that marred the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, has died, a Georgia coroner said Wednesday.

Meriwether County coroner Johnny Worley said Jewell's wife discovered the 44-year-old Jewell dead in their home on Wednesday morning.

Worley told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that an autopsy would be performed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, but added there was "no suspicion of foul play".

"He had been having some pretty serious medical problems," Worley told the newspaper.

Jewell, a security guard at Centennial Olympic Park, was initially hailed as a hero in the July 27, 1996 bombing, which left one woman dead and more than 100 injured.

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