Damien Nash Tribute

Nash collapsed suddenly following a celebrity basketball game at Riverview Gardens High School on February 23, 2007 for charity. Nash was found unresponsive at a residence in suburban St. Louis and was later pronounced dead. The charity event was a fundraiser to benefit the Darris Nash Find A Heart Foundation, a charity which raises funds for heart transplant research. Damien had created the charity in honor of his older brother, Darris, a recent heart transplant recipient.

The National Football League team said in a statement that they had been informed of Nash's death. Nash was the second Broncos player to die in 2007; defensive back Darrent Williams was shot to death while riding in a limousine after leaving a Denver nightclub early in the morning of January 1, 2007.

Sergeant Ed Douglas of the Ferguson, Missouri, police department said in a telephone interview that Nash was transported by ambulance to Christian Hospital Northeast. Douglas said the case was still under investigation. Nash was pronounced dead at 6:41 p.m. local time, hospital nursing supervisor Eileen Zwilling said in a telephone interview. She said no other information was available.

An autopsy confirmed that no drugs or unnatural substances were present in Nash's body at the time of death. While being a natural death of cardiac origin, the exact cause of death remains undetermined.