Kyle Busch’s struggle with sepsis lasted just a single day before it led to a swift cascade of blood clots, ultimately resulting in fatal hemorrhaging and severe blood loss, as revealed by his death certificate obtained by Us Weekly.

The 41-year-old racing enthusiast passed away on May 21. He was urgently taken to the hospital after losing consciousness following a test drive session in a race simulator near Charlotte, North Carolina. Subsequent findings disclosed that he had been contending with pneumonia, which escalated into sepsis.

Now, insights from a North Carolina medical examiner shed light on the tragic series of events leading to Busch’s untimely death.

Sepsis, a severe response to infection, triggered the formation of blood clots that obstructed his organs, reports Us Weekly. This complication pushed Busch into a state of hemorrhagic shock.

The death certificate further notes that Busch has been cremated in Mooresville, North Carolina.

Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office spokespeople did not immediately respond to The Daily Mail’s request for the death certificate. 

Kyle Busch battled sepsis for only a day before blood clots led to hemorrhaging, blood loss and, ultimately, death, according to the death certificate

NASCAR Hall of Famer and RCR team owner, Richard Childress, Samantha Busch (wife) Brexton Busch (son) and NASCAR Chief Executive Officer Steve O’Donnell stand on the grid during the remembrance ceremony for Kyle Busch, who passed away suddenly at the age of 41

The medical examiner’s findings support the claims made during a May 20 911 call, when Busch was reportedly throwing up blood.  

Initially, as the caller told the 911 operator, Busch had ‘shortness of breath’ and felt ‘very hot.’

‘[He] thinks he’s going to pass out, and he’s producing a little bit of blood, coughing up some blood,’ the caller added.

The caller then confirmed Busch was still conscious, repeatedly telling dispatch: ‘He is awake. He’s awake. He’s awake.’

According to the 911 audio, the NASCAR great was lying on a bathroom floor at the facility while employees prepared for the paramedics’ arrival. 

Busch was then rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead the following day. 

Previously, Busch dealt with a sinus issue during a NASCAR Cup Series race in Watkins Glen, New York on May 10. Nearing the end of that competition, Busch radioed his pit crew to ask for the help of Bill Heisel, a certified physician’s assistant who has worked with the stock car circuit for years.

‘Can somebody try to find Bill Heisel?’ Busch asked the Richard Childress Racing crew. ‘He’s the [inaudible] doctor guy. Tell him I need him after the race, please… I’m gonna need a shot.’

Busch’s parents, Tom and Gaye, and his brother, NASCAR Hall of Famer Kurt Busch, also attended the race as NASCAR honored the late driver with a moment of silence

Samantha broke down into tears as she embraced her 11-year-old son during Sunday’s tribute 

Busch would go on to finish eighth and later told The Athletic on May 16 that he was still battling a cold prior to the May 23 All-Star race in Dover, Delaware.

It remains unclear what, if any, shot Busch received from Heisel. NASCAR spokespeople did not respond to The Daily Mail’s request for more information.  

Heisel has not been accused of any wrongdoing. And although Busch referred to Heisel as a ‘doctor’ rather than a physician’s assistant, Heisel is not accused of misrepresenting himself or his work. 

According to the TV broadcast, Busch had been struggling with a sinus cold that was exacerbated by the intense G-forces and elevation changes at the Upstate New York road course.

Brushing off the incident, Busch went on to claim his a fifth NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series trophy days later on May 15. 

Following his death, a heartbreaking clip of Busch’s post-race interview resurfaced.

After earning his 69th career Trucks Series race win with the triumph at Dover, he was asked how many races he wanted to win in his career before he stops racing.

‘You take whatever you can get, man,’ Busch said. ‘You never know when the last one is going to be, so cherish them all – trust me.’

Kyle Busch and wife Samantha Busch pose for photos on the red carpet prior to the NASCAR Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Charlotte Convention Center on January 23

Kurt Busch laid white roses on a No 8, which had been stenciled onto the infield grass

Along with his wife, Samantha, Busch was a major proponent of invitro fertilization, which helped the couple to conceive children Brexton and Lennix.

In fact, Samantha revealed in a November episode of her podcast that she saved embryos in case she ever wanted to have another child in the event of his death.

‘Here’s something I’ve never told anybody,’ Samantha told guest Ashley George . ‘I’m a certified over-sharer. So a lot of people ask me what we have done with our embryos because we still have some. I can’t part with them…I don’t know what else to do at this point because I love them so much and can’t make a decision.

‘Kyle was like, “We’re done having kids,” and I said, “But what if?” I told him the most morbid story the other day. I was like, “What if you passed? I would have to have another kid to be connected to you and name that child after you.”‘

The attorney representing Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk, a 38-year-old from Covington, Washington, has reported that his client is facing threats and has had his personal information exposed online after a video of him allegedly throwing a rock at a monk seal went viral.

According to an Associated Press report, Lytvynchuk’s legal representative, Myles Breiner, stated that the incident has sparked significant backlash against his client.

The controversial video purportedly shows the man throwing a rock at the head of an endangered Hawaiian monk seal while the animal was swimming close to the shore in Maui.

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Igor Mykhaylovych Lytvynchuk is now facing two federal charges, accused of assaulting an endangered Hawaiian monk seal with a rock on May 5, 2026, as reported by the Department of Justice.

A Hawaiian monk seal sleeps on a beach in Hawaii. ((Ryan Jenkinson/Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii))

He is due in federal court Wednesday.

As a result of the May 5 incident and the amassed global attention, Lytvynchuk is facing charges of harassing and attempting to harass a protected animal. He was arrested in the Seattle area on May 13.

OREGON SEAL PUP STABBED MULTIPLE TIMES AS NOAA SEEKING TO TRACK DOWN PERSON OF INTEREST

A Hawaiian monk seal and her newborn pup rest on a Waikiki beach in Honolulu on June 29, 2017. (Audrey McAvoy/AP)

In an interview with local outlet KHON, Breiner went on the record to say, “I want to be resoundingly clear to the public — he never intended to injure the monk seal.”

Breiner maintains his client was only trying to protect seals in the area.

Monk seals are a highly endangered species with only 1,600 left in the world, according to NOAA.

A Hawaiian monk seal sunbathes on a beach in Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawaii, on March 27, 2022. (Danielle Pellini)

If convicted, Lytvynchuk could face up to a year in prison on each charge, along with a fine of up to $50,000 under the Endangered Species Act and up to $20,000 under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

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An unsettling message comprising just 11 words, allegedly penned by missing California mother Maya Millete to her husband, was revealed in court on Tuesday. This revelation is part of the prosecution’s disturbing case against Larry Millete, who stands accused in her murder trial.

Maya’s poignant words were: “Let me find my peace . . . I cannot find it with you.”

This significant message emerged from a letter Maya reportedly addressed to Larry in August 2020, several months before she disappeared at the age of 39 from their Chula Vista residence in San Diego on January 7, 2021.

Larry Millete faces charges of murdering his wife, although her body has never been recovered.

The letter, described as damning, was read aloud during the trial’s fifth day of testimony, casting a stark light on the deteriorating state of the Milletes’ marriage, according to reports from FOX5.

“You are right, I am not myself anymore. I’ve turned into this bitter, angry person who is careless with her words,” Maya wrote.

“But that’s what our marriage has turned me into. And I hate it.”

She described the relationship as “unhealthy” and “toxic,” adding: “With the kids in mind, I want to be happy and happy is not with you.”

“I’ve been gone mentally and emotionally, for a very long time,” the letter continued.

Jurors also heard testimony about troubling internet searches allegedly discovered on devices inside the Millete home.

Former Chula Vista Police Department forensic specialist David Garber testified that investigators found searches including “how to mentally torture someone with words,” “psychological torture,” and “how to mentally torture someone.”

Garber further testified that investigators discovered what could be evidence of a small bloodstain in the trunk of Larry’s Lexus, along with streaks suggesting the area had been wiped clean.

Still, Garber noted the vehicle was not officially considered a crime scene.

Detective Ryan Culver testified officers found no signs of a struggle or foul play when they first entered the Millete family home on Paseo Los Gatos the night Maya was reported missing.

Larry allowed officers into the house and cooperated with investigators at the time, Culver testified.

The court also heard from digital forensic experts who extracted evidence from the couple’s electronics and vehicles.

NCIS digital forensic examiner Amy Voight testified she decrypted Maya’s Navy-issued work laptop in February 2021 because the device was encrypted due to her job with the Navy.

Former CVPD Digital Evidence Unit employee Glenn Stark testified he processed evidence from a MacBook seized from the home, Larry’s Lexus, and Maya’s Jeep.

Stark told jurors he removed an SD card from the Lexus and extracted the infotainment system from Maya’s Jeep before turning the data over to detectives.

Later Tuesday, CVPD Detective Lorenzo Ruiz testified that investigators found no evidence Maya used her credit cards after Jan. 7, 2021, other than automatic payments.

Authorities also found no cellphone activity tied to Maya after her disappearance, Ruiz testified. Investigators checked with Uber, border officials, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement but found no evidence she left the country or used rideshare services.

Ruiz also reviewed neighborhood security footage and testified he saw no indication Maya left the home after Jan. 7.

Additional searches allegedly found on Maya’s laptop included “physical abuse manifesting years after marriage,” searches related to divorce and child support calculators and “Is manhandling a wife physical abuse?”

Many of those searches dated back to August 2020, according to testimony.

The trial is expected to last roughly three months, with 152 people listed as potential witnesses.

Outside the presence of the jury Tuesday, defense attorney Liann Sabatini objected to possible evidence tied to alleged activity on Tinder and Ashley Madison accounts. The evidence has not been shown in court.

The prominent journalist from 60 Minutes who found herself at odds with CBS executives over a contentious report about the Trump administration’s policies is no longer part of the show.

Sharyn Alfonsi’s contract, which concluded on Saturday, has not been renewed by the network, according to information first revealed by The New York Times.

This decision follows an incident six months prior when a segment she worked on, highlighting ‘brutal and torturous conditions’ at a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration was sending suspected illegal immigrants, was unexpectedly postponed.

When approached for her thoughts on her departure, Alfonsi expressed to the Times, “It sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.”

As reported by the Los Angeles Times in December, Alfonsi communicated through internal emails that Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss’s judgment to delay the segment was driven by ‘political’ motives.

CBS executives considered the drafting of the internal memo as ‘insubordinate,’ several sources told the Times.

Alfonsi, in turn, told the paper she did not regret making the comments that were quickly leaked to the press.

Asked about CBS’s decision not to renew her contract, she said: ‘I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting.’

Alfonsi added that she was ‘not resigning’ from CBS, before effectively daring her higher-ups to pull the trigger.

Sharyn Alfonsi, a longtime presence at 60 Minutes, slammed CBS’s decision to pull a story about a Salvadoran prison as ‘political’ in December. She is no longer with the program, she revealed on Wednesday

Longtime 60 Minutes star Anderson Cooper also recently left the program. Media reports cited frustrations with senior leadership

‘If they want me gone because I did my job, they’ll have to fire me,’ she said. 

‘The concern is we’re going to end up with a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but doesn’t have the courage or the character to produce 60 Minutes journalism that actually matters.’

Fellow 60 Minutes long-timer Anderson Cooper already left last week, in part because of Editor-in-Chief Weiss, Status reported. Cooper, who remains at CNN, had been on the show for almost 20 years.

Alfonsi joined the program in 2015 and CBS in 2011.

Her story about Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) sparked what White House deputy policy chief Stephen Miller later called a ‘revolt’, when Weiss spiked it the day before it was set to air.

The following Monday, Weiss told staffers during the day’s editorial call that the episode had not done enough to take the story forward after reporting elsewhere: ‘While the story presented powerful testimony of torture at CECOT, it did not advance the ball.

Alfonsi’s team also did not get enough administration officials on the record for the ‘important piece,’ she maintained.

Alfonsi, 53, immediately argued the move was a form of censorship. 

The story then accidentally aired on the TV app for one of Canada’s largest networks that week and copies of the show began to circulate widely online.

Alfonsi, a 60 Minutes correspondent since 2015, maintains that the last-minute move was a form of censorship

When the segment did officially air in January, viewers were able to compare the two versions, with few differences between the two.

The end of the segment was updated to include the administration’s comment. The administration also provided pictures of tattoos that had been on two of the migrants Alfonsi had interviewed.

The final episode of 60 Minutes’ latest season aired on May 17. Alfonsi was a regular presence even after the CECOT saga.

A February segment from her praised a German bid to arrest internet users accused of ‘hate-filled or toxic’ rhetoric.

The segment aired shortly after Vice President JD Vance slammed Germany and other European countries for adopting what he saw as a ‘Soviet’-style approach to censorship.

Weiss was hired by Paramount CEO David Ellison, son of billionaire GOP donor Larry Ellison, in October. Weiss is also the founder of the right-leaning Free Press, which was purchased by Ellison when she was hired in October.

There have since been wide-ranging changes at the network. 

 CBS News’s editor-in-chief, Free Press founder Bari Weiss, made the call to spike the story

Weiss was personally appointed by Paramount CEO David Ellison, the son of billionaire Larry Ellison

Ex-60 Minutes boss Bill Owens and former CBS News chief Wendy McMahon already left the network ahead of Ellison’s ascent, citing corporate overreach after Paramount’s merger with Ellison’s Skydance was approved by the FCC in July.

Ellison, at the time, articulated a vision of the prime Paramount asset reaching people who are more centrist.

Longtime 60 Minutes journalist Lesley Stahl, meanwhile, is also reassessing her future at CBS News, after being passed over for the show’s recent sit-down with Benjamin Netanyahu, which was arranged by Weiss personally, according to Status.

She, Cooper, and Alfonsi were all part of a group of 60 Minutes correspondents demanding that CBS name the show’s next executive producer after longtime lead Owens’s exit in April of last year. 

Veteran producer Tanya Simon received the job in July, after heavy backing from the journalists.

The Daily Mail approached CBS and Paramount for comment.