Najai Turpin

Age: 23

Summary: middleweight boxer who became a contestant on the new NBC-TV reality series The Contender, a show about boxing, and who entered the series as a well-regarded young fighter with a 13-1 record.

Cause of Death: Suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound

Born: December 19, 1981

Died: February 14, 2005

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania