By Daniel Kreps
Singer, in phone call to
wife before suicide, slurred his words, admitted to taking too much anxiety
medicine and repeated "I am just tired"
A police report from the
investigation into the death of Chris Cornell has revealed new details
regarding the singer's suicide.
According to the report,
obtained by the Detroit News, Cornell had a troubling telephone conversation
with his wife Vicky in the hour before his death where he admitted to taking
"an extra Ativan or two" and was slurring his words, reiterating
Vicky Cornell's separate statement Friday morning.
The police report also
fleshed out the timeline of what transpired from the time Soundgarden's Detroit
concert ended to the time the singer was found dead in his hotel room's
bathroom.
Soon after Soundgarden's
concert ended, at 11:30 p.m., Cornell's bodyguard Martin Kirsten said he
accompanied the singer to his hotel room to help fix his computer and give him
two Ativan "which victim takes for anxiety," the police report
states.
Soon after, Cornell and
Vicky spoke on the phone, with the singer slurring his words, admitting he may
have taken too much Ativan and repeatedly saying "I am just tired"
before abruptly hanging up.
Following that
conversation, Vicky Cornell called Kirsten to check on her husband. Despite
having the key to Cornell's room, Kirsten couldn't open the door because it was
latched. Kirsten then called hotel security, who told the bodyguard that they
could not let him in the room because he wasn't authorized to enter it.
Despite security's refusal
to assist, Kirsten then kicked open Cornell's hotel door. The bedroom door was
also latched, so the bodyguard again called hotel security before ultimately
kicking open that door. Upon inspecting the bathroom, Kirsten found Cornell
"laying on the bathroom floor" with blood running down his mouth and
a red exercise band around his neck.
According to TMZ, Cornell
fastened the band to a carabiner that had been lodged into the doorframe,
leaving indentation marks.
Just before 1 a.m.,
paramedics entered Cornell's room, removed the band from his neck and attempted
CPR on the singer, who was not breathing. A doctor who later came to the scene
pronounced Cornell dead at 1:30 a.m.
Chris Cornell's wife Vicky
issued a statement speculating whether his suicide was the result of too much
anxiety medication. Watch here.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chris-cornell-police-report-details-singers-death-w483238
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