According to police, a security guard found Iron bleeding and unconscious by a flower bed of an apartment complex located at Jung-gu, Seoul, at 10:25 am KST and reported it. The artist was soon taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead. Iron has been under investigation since last December for assaulting a teenage boy who was learning music from him with a baseball bat. Back in 2016, he was indicted on charges of smoking marijuana, and in 2018, he was sentenced to prison to 8 months and two years of probation after he was found guilty of punching and threatening his girlfriend for not complying with his demands during their sexual intercourse. ┬Ā Source (1)