Eduardo Xol, an everyday on the ABC actuality present “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” has died. He was 58.
The dressmaker and tv persona died Friday at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, in response to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Coroner10 days after being attacked in a Palm Springs residence.
According to Palm Springs police, officers responded to the scene at 5:41 a.m. on Sept. 10 after a person known as for assist however was unable to offer particular particulars.
“Once officers arrived on scene, they heard a male voice contained in the residence, apparently in misery. Upon getting into, officers found a male affected by extreme accidents in keeping with an assault,” police mentioned. he said“The sufferer knowledgeable officers that he had been stabbed, though he didn’t establish the assailant.”
Xol was then transported to the hospital and his situation was declared critical, however he was steady on the time of his dying.
Police mentioned they obtained a name a couple of hours later from a person who mentioned he had been assaulted the earlier night time. They responded and recognized the caller as Richard Joseph Gonzales, 34, a resident of Cathedral City.
“Through additional investigation, officers decided that Gonzales was the suspect within the earlier stabbing,” police mentioned. Gonzales was arrested on suspicion of tried homicide and was booked into the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio.
Gonzales stays in custody, in response to inmate registersand has been charged with homicide. No bail has been set and he’s scheduled to seem in courtroom on December 18.
Representatives for Xol didn’t instantly reply to The Times’ requests for touch upon Thursday.
Xol appeared on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” alongside Ty Pennington for seven-plus seasons, from 2005 to 2012, and was a part of the staff that helped the collection win two Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2006.
He was additionally an creator and actor, showing within the 1998 movie “Bravo” and the Nineties Spanish-language telenovelas “La Jaula de Oro,” “Sentimientos de Oro,” and “Acapulco, Cuerpo y Alma.”
In an announcement launched to Today.comXol’s household mentioned they have been saddened by the “tragic loss.”
“As his household, we all know that his kindness has touched the lives of so many,” the assertion learn. “We ask that this kindness be returned now, permitting our privateness to be revered as we grieve.”
The household has requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Xol’s identify to the Lupus Foundation of America “as he spent a lot of his life serving others.”
ON Instagram StoriesPennington wrote Wednesday that he was “devastated to be taught of Eduardo’s passing.”
“Truly a real, type soul,” the “Extreme Makeover” star mentioned.
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” aired from 2005 to 2012, had one other season in 2020 and will return to ABC and Hulu for 2024-25.
