By Dave Meltzer
The Orange County Sheriff's department this afternoon stated autopsy results are not back in the death of former UFC fighter Justin Levens,and wife Sara McLean-Levens, 25, who were found dead from apparent gunshot wounds on their bed in a Laguna Niguel condo by McLean-Levens' mother, who had not heard from her daughter in five days.
Police believe the couple had been dead for a couple of days when they were found at 2:30 p.m. yesterday.
No suicide note was found, but police believe it to be a murder/suicide.
Levens and his wife were both scheduled to appear Wednesday in court where they faced charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
Levens, 28, was in significant financial trouble and fighters close to him said they could see him spiraling downward, particularly since the suicide death of Southern California Condors teammate Jeremy Williams.
Levens had been under a 180-day suspension from fighting since July by the California State Athletic Commission for testing positive for high doses of the painkiller oxymorphone for a fight on the 7/19 Affliciton show that ended up being canceled due to time constraints.
Pain pills as well as anti-depressant pills were found in the home.
NBCSports.com quoted Jim Amormino of the Orange County Sheriff's Department as saying, "We can't say 100 percent right now, but it is a possibility of that (murder/suicide) with him being the shooter."
Police had been called to the Levens home twice over the past month, including one time due to a suspected drug overdose.
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