 The next day, numerous media outlets reported Ewen committed suicide via self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.Ewen's family would later report that he had allegedly been suffering from depression for several years.On February 10, 2016, it was reported by TSN that Ewen's results from a chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) examination performed by Lili-Naz Hazrati, a researcher in Toronto with the Canadian Sports Concussion Project, came back negative and that Ewen's widow had been given the results the month before.