Atlanta Falcons cheerleader found dead in her apartment

<p>Authorities were trying to determine why an Atlanta Falcons cheerleader died in her north Atlanta apartment Sunday.</p><p>Tara Tanner, who turned 22 last month, was found dead by a friend, said Atlanta police Sgt. Kevin Iosty.</p><p>The Roswell High School graduate's body was sent to the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy, a routine procedure. On Monday, Iosty said the body showed no signs of trauma, and it was too soon to say what might have caused her death.</p><p>"They weren't looking at it being foul play," said Atlanta police spokesman Marion Lee.</p><p>Falcons spokesman Aaron Salkin said he was "shocked and saddened by this news.</p><p>"On behalf of the Atlanta Falcons family, our thoughts and prayers are with her family during this difficult time."</p><p>The Falcons Web site paints the picture of a Georgia State University student who enjoyed the arts. She wrote that her fondest memory during her four seasons as a Falcons cheerleader was entertaining U.S. troops in Egypt and Korea.</p><p>"It is so fantastic to be able to bring a little bit of the U.S. to soldiers who are stationed on the other side of the world," Tanner wrote on the Web site.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2866650)</p>