Mary Ann Owen/ZUMAPress.comThe already tragic news did not get any better for Mike Tyson's family.
Arizona police have confirmed to E! News that the former heavyweight champ's 4-year-old daughter, Exodus Tyson, has died, a day after accidentally hanging herself on a piece of exercise equipment at the family home.
"I was just advised by investigators that Exodus Tyson was pronounced deceased at 11:45 a.m. today at the hospital," said Sgt. Andy Hill of the Phoenix Police Department. "Our sympathies go out to the family. I cannot release any other information."
Exodus was on life support in critical condition at St. Joseph's Hospital. She had somehow become entangled by a cord hanging from a treadmill and was unconscious when her 7-year-old brother discovered her.
E! News has learned that the children's mother is 34-year-old Sol Xochitl of Phoenix. She and Tyson no longer live together but are still a couple, according to neighbor Dinka Radic.
The family has lived in the neighborhood for about six years, Radic said.
"She's over there at the hospital," Radic said earlier today of Xochitl. "Her family came last night to check on the house but no one is home right now. She's a very good mother."
Tyson's rep released this statement last night:
"The Tyson family would like to extend our deepest and most heartfelt thanks for all your prayers and support, and we ask that we be allowed our privacy at this difficult time."
Police have said that the incident appears to have been an accident and they have no reason to suspect otherwise.
—Additional reporting by Whitney English