The sports agent at the center of the NCAA’s investigation of the UNC football program has died but the investigation will continue.

Gary Wichard, 60, died from diabetes and pancreatic cancer at his home in California. Wichard was a friend of former North Carolina associate head coach John Blake, who resigned last year when details of the scandal began to emerge which included revelations that Blake accepted funds from Wichard.

Just last week, a NC Secretary of State’s office executed a search warrant on a bank account belonging to Wichard. A spokesman from the office said that the investigation will continue and that there are “other avenues” to explore.

As an aside, after looking at the only picture of Wichard that seems to be out there, you’d think he was younger and in better shape than a 60-year-old man with diabetes and cancer. Makes his death even more shocking.