Later Life
Towards the end of his life, Casey ran a restaurant in Brooklyn.
On July 3, 1951, Casey died in Atlanta, Georgia, by a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the neck. He was 37 years old.
Casey was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.
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