Died co-founder of Vine and HQ Trivia Colin Kroll. He was 34

Colin Kroll is one of the founders and Executive Director of HQ Trivia — died at the age of 34 years. The representative of the NYPD told the Daily Beast that Kroll found in his Manhattan apartment the night from Saturday to Sunday. Cause of death suspected drug overdose.

According to sources of TMZ, the police summoned the girl Kroll, when you are unable to get in touch with him. On arrival officers found Colin in the bedroom unconscious. There were narcotic substances (according to unconfirmed reports, cocaine and heroin) and devices for their use.

Doctors pronounced him dead an hour later. Currently investigating the incident as a drug overdose, but the exact cause of death will determine the city medical examiner.

Kroll created a game app quiz Trivia HQ in conjunction with the native of Tajikistan Rus Yusupov, with whom in 2013 he founded the Vine. The game debuted in 2017, almost instantly becoming a hit among users. However, in recent months HQ is rapidly losing audience. If in January it was in the top 10 most popular games for iPhone, by the end of 2018 fell more than 200 positions.

The crisis was not only the game: one of the HQ staff filed a complaint against Kroll, accusing him of «aggressive» behavior toward subordinates.

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