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Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, found dead. He was 34.

Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, found dead. He was 34.
Honoree Colin Kroll attends the Variety Breakthrough of the Year Awards during the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, 2014. Copyright  Steven Lawton Getty Images file
Copyright Steven Lawton Getty Images file
By Janelle Griffith with NBC News U.S. News
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A drug overdose is the suspected cause of death, police said, but an investigation is underway.

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Colin Kroll, the co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday.

Police responded to a 911 call for a welfare check at the Spring Street apartment on Sunday, a New York Police Department Spokesman told NBC News. Kroll was 34, police said.

Police found Kroll unconscious and unresponsive in a bedroom of the apartment, the spokesman said.

He was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.

A drug overdose is the suspected cause of death, police said, but an investigation is underway.

Kroll was named the chief executive of HQ Trivia, a phone-based trivia platform, in September. Prior to that he worked at Twitter.

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