A post-mortem examination will take place to determine how he died, but his family said he was in a "great deal of pain and suffering" before his death.
His sister, Ally Valentine, spoke of her family's pain following Tucek's sudden death.
"Our lives were ripped into a billion pieces this week with the devastating news our dearly loved son, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, grandson, cousin, nephew and friend passed away suddenly and unexpectedly," she wrote on a GoFundMe page set up to raise money to fly his body to Perth.