Vince Marinello
Vince Marinello, 82, grew up on Dauphine Street in New Orleans' 9th Ward, played baseball and basketball at St. Aloysius, and studied business administration at LSU. He spent 14 years at WDSU-TV, where he became executive sports producer and sports director and co-hosted a talk show with Bob Mitchell. He died on February 21, 2020, at Dixon Correctional Center in Jackson, Louisiana, where he was in the custody of the state corrections department. Prison officials said he had been receiving medical treatment there, and the department's death data lists cancer as the cause. His defense attorney said he had a history of cardiac problems, including a heart attack in prison.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists the death as cancer in its yearly death data.
Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.