@TomSea
Which usually means he died of AIDS/AIDS related illness.
Usually? You have any stats on that?
Could be a whole bunch of reasons. Lurid ones like AIDS as you said, or alcoholism or drug addiction for sure, but also cancer or other serious illnesses over which Mr. Garrison had no control. Also possible no cause was revealed because an autopsy is pending and/or no one really knows what happened.
Or maybe the family just doesn't want to have it talked about. I grew up a few streets away from a tight-knit Italian immigrant community. They had this superstition that if you merely mentioned the word "cancer," you were doomed to contract the disease and die from it. My closest childhood friend from that neighborhood sill dances around the word, even though she was born here and is well educated.
I never saw the Karate Kid movies, so I don't know Mr. Garrison, but I'm not going to engage in idle speculation about his death and participate in rumor-mongering. I'll just wish him rest in peace.