Former “Glee” actor Mark Salling had alcohol in his system and ditched his tracking device near his residence before hanging himself last January while on house arrest for a child pornography conviction, his final autopsy report obtained by the Daily News states.
Salling, 35, had enough alcohol in his blood to determine “he had been drinking,” a coroner source told The News.
According to the 17-page report, Salling was watching TV with his dad until 11:30 p.m. the night before his body was found hours later hanging from a tree in a Los Angeles park.
“His roommate found the tracking devise down the street from the residence,” the report released Monday said.
The report confirmed Salling had a history of depression and previously tried to take his life by cutting his wrists in August or September.
He was hospitalized for a month after the prior suicide attempt, the report from the Los Angeles County Coroner said.
Salling did not leave a note, the report confirmed.
The actor was due to meet his probation officer the morning he was found dead and was scheduled to be sentenced this month.
Under the terms of his plea deal, he agreed to serve four to seven years in prison for possessing pornographic images of prepubescent minors on his personal computer.
“I can confirm that Mark Salling passed away early this morning. Mark was a gentle and loving person, a person of great creativity, who was doing his best to atone for some serious mistakes and errors of judgment,” his lawyer Michael Proctor said in a statement after Salling’s death.
“He is survived by his mother and father, and his brother. The Salling family appreciates the support they have been receiving and asks for their privacy to be respected,” Proctor said.
The death came two years after police entered Salling’s home with a battering ram and seized computer and thumb drive devices containing tens of thousands of images of child porn, officials said.
“Defendant attempted to conceal his activity by using software that masked his IP address,” his plea agreement said. “However, on at least two occasions in 2015, defendant showed his child pornography to an adult woman in the context of their sexual relationship. This was ultimately reported to law enforcement.”
Salling played the Mohawk-wearing bad boy Noah (Puck) Puckerman during “Glee’s” highly successful six-season run.
Puck was a football-playing high school jock who ended up joining a glee club with one of his teammates, Finn Hudson, played by actor Cory Monteith.
Monteith died in 2013 at age 31 from a deadly mix of alcohol and heroin, officials said.
After his arrest in 2015, Salling was fired from his starring role in the miniseries “Adi Shankar’s Gods and Secrets.”
