Pedophile Glee actor Mark Salling looked disheveled and ‘agitated’ as he bought a packet of cigarettes just hours before he took his own life.
In an exclusive video obtained by DailyMailTV Salling is seen visiting a convenience store near his home in Sunland, California at around 12.40pm on Monday.
The once well groomed actor was seen wearing scruffy dark blue tracksuit bottoms, flip flops and a black long sleeved shirt.
He wore a thick, untidy beard and appeared pale and twitchy as he paid for the Marlboro Lights with a credit card.
Mark Salling looked disheveled and ‘agitated’ as he bought a packet of cigarettes just hours before he took his own life
A worker at the store said Salling had little to say as he bought the smokes, but looked ‘on a different planet’
‘He seemed agitated, not really there, you could tell he was depressed or something, he asked for Marlboro Lights but didn’t say thanks,’ the worker said
A worker at the store said Salling had little to say as he bought the smokes, but looked ‘on a different planet’.
‘He seemed agitated, not really there, you could tell he was depressed or something, he asked for Marlboro Lights but didn’t say thanks,’ the worker said.
Salling was best known for his role as Noah “Puck” Puckerman on the television series Glee.
Less than 24 hours later Salling’s body was found in a riverbed in a remote area roughly six miles from his home.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed the death was a suicide and that Salling died in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to the coroner’s report obtained by DailyMailTV his death was caused by asphyxia from hanging.
Salling had previously attempted to take his own life in August by slitting his wrists as he awaited trial on federal child pornography charges.
He told the judge he was on medication for depression at his next court hearing, two months after that incident.
The actor’s career came crashing down in 2015 after he was arrested for possession of appalling child pornography showing victims as young as three.
Investigators found 50,000 images and videos on his computer, more than 4,000 on a thumb drive and tens of thousands more on an encrypted hard drive.
Update: Mark Salling (above in October) died on Tuesday and his body was found in a riverbed his corner’s report confirms
Scene: An autopsy revealed that the actor committed suicide and his cause of death was asphyxia from hanging(riverbed where Salling’s body was discovered above)
Transport: The disgraced actor’s body is removed from the scene by coroners and members of the LAPD
Prepaing to move: Half a dozen officers assisted as the body was put inside the coroner’s van. The official cause of death has not yet been revealed but it is believed the disgraced star hanged himself
He was due to be sentenced by a judge on March 7 and faced between four and seven years after taking a plea deal in December.
Salling’s death means he will avoid the $250,000 fine he was ordered to pay as part of his plea in addition to the $50,000 he would have to hand over to each victim seeking restitution in the case.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that children who are featured in child pornography are victimized twice – first by the abuser who films them and a second time by the person who views those images.
As a result, it was ordered that individuals who are charged with viewing child pornography are liable for restitution in an amount equal to the victim’s out-of-pocket losses for things such a treatment, loss of work and attorney’s fees.
The actor, who was 35 at the time of his death, had been reported missing by a concerned family member in the early morning hours of Tuesday.
His body was discovered just before 9am by Big Tujunga Creek near the Starwood Riding club, an equestrian facility.
Salling’s car was found parked on the side of the road approximately 500ft from where his body was found.