Adan Manzano was in New Orleans to cover Super Bowl LIX, but the sports reporter was found dead in his hotel room before kickoff. Police are trying to figure out what happened and what, if anything, “a career criminal” police say is known to run fraud schemes in the city’s French Quarter had to do with his death.

Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was found dead in his New Orleans hotel room days before the game. He was 27 years old. The Kansas City sports reporter leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter, who he was caring for after his wife was killed in a car accident nearly a year ago.

Adan Manzano, the sports reporter and anchor from Kansas City who was found dead in his hotel room while in New Orleans to cover the 2025 Super Bowl, hoped to be a good single parent to his daughter after his wife’s death in a car accident.