Former 'Glee' star Mark Salling found dead at 35

Former "Glee" star Mark Salling was found dead on Tuesday at 25, as first reported by TMZ and confirmed by US Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter. TMZ said he died of an apparent suicide.

TMZ cited a law enforcement source who said Salling was found dead near a riverbed in the Sunland neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he lived. His cause of death is yet to be determined, but the source said he may have died from hanging himself.

Salling was awaiting a March 7 sentencing for a child pornography charge he plead guilty to in October. He was arrested in 2015 when police found thousands of images of underage children on his computer.

Salling was expected to be sentenced to 4 to 7 years in prison as part of a plea deal in March.

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