Days after Derek Sink’s body was discovered in a Planet Fitness tanning bed, his mom Karen Wetzel shared more about her son and what may have led up to the moments before his death.

On Monday morning – just hours after the Planet Fitness on Hardegan Street opened for the day – officers were called to a report of a body inside a tanning bed at the gym. Gym-goer Elizabeth Len revealed she had gone to the Planet Fitness that morning and noticed a “foul smell” which seemed to get stronger near the tanning rooms.

Indianapolis police are investigating the death of a man found dead in a tanning bed at a Planet Fitness gym Monday morning. The man was identified as Derek Sink, 39, by the Marion County Coroner’s Office. Sink had went into a tanning bed on Friday ...