Story highlights Police are investigating death as a drug overdose

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(CNN) Ashley Sawyer, who appeared on MTV's hit reality show "Catfish" in 2013, died Saturday in Hoover, Alabama, according to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office. She was 23.

Authorities told CNN members of the Hoover Police Department responded to a 911 call shortly after midnight on April 30 at the Wood Garden Apartments where Sawyer was found not breathing. Capt. Greg Rector said officers attempted CPR, but Sawyer was pronounced dead at the scene.

Rector said several of Sawyer's friends were with her in the apartment at the time of the incident and one of those friends made the emergency call.

"In all likelihood, her death is due to a drug overdose and is being investigated as such," Rector said.

Sawyer's grandmother, Eunice Jones of Marietta, Georgia, told CNN that "it's been a rough weekend" for the family.

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