Winner of Reality TV Show 'Ink Master' Found Dead in Hotel Room in Roselle

Plainfield resident and tattoo artist Scott Marshall was found dead in a Roselle hotel room, according to Roselle Police Sgt. John Lawson. He was 41 years old.

Lawson said they had received a call from the Holiday Inn Express located at 1490 W. Lake St. for an unresponsive guest at 4:24 p.m. Sunday.

Johanna Marshall told TMZ that her husband said he wasn’t feeling well enough to drive home and stayed at a hotel. When he didn’t answer his phone she became worried. Johanna also said that a preliminary autopsy result showed Marshall’s death may have had something to do with his heart.

The case is currently being investigated and the manner of death will not be known until the coroner has completed an autopsy. A spokesperson for the DuPage County Coroner’s Office would not confirm that Marshall had in fact died, nor would they provide anymore information about the incident.

In addition to running Roselle Tattoo Co., Marshall won season 4 of Spike TV’s “Ink Master” and took home the grand prize of $100,000.

Marshall had told Patch in a 2014 interview that he planned to invest his winnings to further his career.

“[I’ll] just continue to work — it’ll give me a fresh start. I’m kind of just going with the flow,” Marshall had said.