9. Greg and Harry Leary's sister recognize that Harry had many concussions and likely had CTE

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MYdLmFm4jbk

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2025-11-10

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9. Harry Leary’s friends and family believe that he had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) from the many head injuries he received as a child and adult. One result was Harry pushing away the people that he loved.

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I mean, there's, you know, the way they found him, we [sighs] suspect, you know,
we've done a couple things with this sister, a bunch of stuff with his sister and Eddie King and
everything else. He He's had a lot of concussions. He had a lot of concussions over the years. Yeah.
And we really seriously believe he had CTE. Yeah. He was a little off at times. You know,
he would he about ran everybody off. It seemed like, you know, the more I knew started to know
these people after the fact, the more I saw the damage that he induced upon himself, alienating
himself from people that he loved. It was kind of sad in a way, but and a lot of the people just
wanted nothing to do with him again after that. Some of them stuck with him even though he was
a not nice to him at times, you know, they sure Eddie King was one of them. Yeah. And obviously a
sister, you know, I guess she had quit talking to him about the time I started training with

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