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[NightOnyx]

Damn, that sucks to hear. I used to love watching him on the xgames, and I also enjoyed his video game. He was so young, and I feel so bad for his family. It's really so sad how many celebrity death's there have been this year already.

 

[hydruxo]

Man, I went to school at East Carolina in Greenville, NC and saw Dave around a few times downtown. Always seemed like such a down to earth and nice guy. He'll definitely be missed.

 

[dvdjamm]

RIP

 

[Rembrandt]

Wow, that's so random.

RIP to the legend.

 

[PopeReal]

I just know him because of video games. RIP.

 

[DaveTheSnake]

Today has sucked. Axl Rotten and Dave Mirra on the same damn day.

Wow, did not know about Axl Rotten. My God, so sad.

RIP Axel
RIP Dave

PLEASE: If anyone knows somebody with depression, help them get help. If you have depression, please get help. You can get better.

 

[Oddduck]

Woah, holy shit.

 

[SpookyFries]

My brother and I would play Dave Mirra BMX 2 crash mode for hours upon hours just laughing at the ragdoll physics

Really sad he is gone at such a young age

 

[thelatestmodel]

Awful, terrible news. He was the best in the world when I was riding. Feels very weird to hear this news, suicide is so tragic.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Grew up using my BMX to go everywhere with mates, competing in race comps, watching him in events, endless days at the local bowl and playing his video games. Sad times and there is always a better way people.

 

[BadAss2961]

Rip

Yup, I was up on this too. Dreamcast version.

RIP

 

[Emperor Bohe]

Jesus Christ...

 

[Banglish]

My brother and I would play Dave Mirra BMX 2 crash mode for hours upon hours just laughing at the ragdoll physics

Really sad he is gone at such a young age

Man, me and a buddy of mine aren't even remotely into bmx in real life and we had hours upon hours of with that game. RIP

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Grew up using my BMX to go everywhere with mates, competing in race comps, watching him in events, endless days at the local bowl and playing his video games. Sad times and there is always a better way people.

Yup. I remember I loved watching him ride. I was not a fan of BMX in general but man he was amazing to watch. He was the Tony Hawk of BMX imo.

 

[darscot]

Tragic the guy was a legend, have to wonder if it was concussion related, I'm sure the guy had many over his career.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Wow, did not know about Axl Rotten. My God, so sad.

RIP Axel
RIP Dave

PLEASE: If anyone knows somebody with depression, help them get help. If you have depression, please get help. You can get better.

Yup. Found him in his motel room. He was 44.

 

[Epcott]

That suuuucks RIP

I know people die every day, but it's to the point where I fear reading the words "TMZ reports" now.

 

[spindashing]

I remember playing the game's demo in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2? Fuck RIP.

 

[Line_HTX]

COME THE FUCK ON! I fucking loved him tearing it up at BMX at X-Games and loved that one commercial of him styling on a random gamer trash talking him!

No, goddamnit, why.... T__T

 

[Darth Pinche]

I remember seeing him win the Toyota Celebrity Race at the Long Beach Grand Prix. He raced for Subaru in Rally America as well.

RIP.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

He was the Tony Hawk of BMX imo.

True.

 

[SecretDan]

Damn. Very sad. Was a huge fan as a kid.

Christ. Picture of him and his wife posted 5 hours ago. He had kids.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Holy shit.

 

[Trouble]

Whoah. Damn.

RIP

 

[thesuperfunk]

Wow ... so young too

 

[Blablurn]

the fuck

 

[GoutPatrol]

I have this game, it's really not good.

It was strange because every other Z-axis game was good up to that point. Aggressive Inline was great.

RIP Dave.

 

[Spinoff90]

His Instagram also has posts made recently, 3 hours ago.

https://www.instagram.com/davemirra/

According to the reports police responded at 4pm in Greensville which would have been 3 hours and 50 minutes ago. That last Instagram post still hasn't hit 4 hours. So he must have posted that and killed himself only moments later. Which is odd because it just seems like a typical TBT post and not something to indicate he was moments from killing himself. Unless that was his way of saying where to find him

 

[injurai]

Rip

Man... this game is how I came to know about him. I got really into the x-games around this time.

 

[Extra Sauce]

R.I.P.

I think the reason we're seeing more celebrity deaths is because our culture has been producing more and more celebrities as time marches on. Celebrity deaths are probably going to get even more frequent in the future.

 

[Tom Nook]

Rip

 

[SteveO409]

Sad to hear about this...I cant imagine what kind of demons he must have been facing inside to do this. RIP

 

[Andiie]

Rest in peace.

 

[WordsintheWater]

Damn, I feel for his family, his friends, and for everyone that knew him

RIP

 

[LookAtMeGo]

What!? Nooooo! Fucking hell. Such a great guy. Sad day.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

This fucking year man. No.

RIP.

 

[Rival]

That's really sad. You'd never know he was about to do this by looking at his Instagram pics. Who posts a pic saying someone was his rock and then kills himself? Tragic.

 

[derder]

Unreal. I'm from NC and heard that he was a legend around Greenville and was really supportive of a lot of different sports and athletes.

Edit: fuck, he was a dad, too

 

[Anth0ny]

What the fuck

RIP

 

[BronsonLee]

Goddamnit. This sucks. RIP. I grew up watching him dominate in BMX.

 

[Ric Flair]

Honestly wouldn't be suprised if it was concussion related suicide. RIP either way

 

[Suite Pee]

Dave Mirra 2's physics were so fucking fun to play with

RIP to this legend

He must have been suffering terribly, so at least that is no more

 

[Silver Arrows]

Didn't he do rallycross for a few years in the 2000's?

 

[CountAntonius]

Dammit. Rest in peace.

 

[MThanded]

His Instagram also has posts made recently, 3 hours ago.

https://www.instagram.com/davemirra/

:-(

 

[Sanjuro]

:-(

Only 2x David Letterman. :'(

I thought he stopped updates earlier. Terrible.

 

[Squalor]

What the fuck?

I loved being a fan of this guy. He was my absolute favorite extreme sports athlete.

 

[reptilescorpio]

RIP Dave, you gave me a lot of joy over the years, my thoughts are with your family

 

[Suite Pee]

Holy fuck

That Instagram post makes this way too real

You can just imagine what some of his thoughts were right towards the end

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Wife and kid(s). I wonder what happend between now and 4/5 hours ago. https://www.instagram.com/p/BBYDQ_YvY2h/?taken-by=davemirra