Chris Cornell\u2019s family says the Soundgarden singer was taking an anti-anxiety prescription medicine.<\/b>
\nChris Cornell\u2019s family says the Soundgarden singer was taking an anti-anxiety prescription medicine, which may have played a role in his death in a Detroit hotel room after a concert Wednesday night.
The Wayne County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office on Thursday ruled the 52-year-old rocker\u2019s death as a suicide by hanging, but the family says he was on the prescription drug Ativan, which may have played a role.
Cornell\u2019s wife, Vicky, said in a statement released by the family to the Associated Press that when she spoke to him on Wednesday after the group\u2019s show at the Fox Theatre that he may have taken \u201can extra Ativan or two\u2019 \u2019 and was slurring his words.
According to reports, Cornell\u2019s wife became concerned and called a family friend who forced open the hotel room door at the MGM Grand Detroit and found Cornell unresponsive in the bathroom.
In a statement issued through attorney Kirk Pasich, the family said that until the toxicology tests are completed, they can\u2019 t be sure what led to the singer-songwriter\u2019s death or if any substance was involved. Pasich told the AP that the anti-anxiety drug has various side effects.
Sgt. Adam Madera of the Detroit Police media relations department, said Friday morning that the investigation was still ongoing and that the results of its findings wouldn\u2019 t be released until the medical examiner\u2019s final report. Toxicology tests typically take several weeks to complete.
Lisa Croff, director of Communications & Media Relations for the Wayne County Health Department, said there was nothing new to report from the medical examiner\u2019s office this morning.
\u201cThey are doing their jobs and doing a thorough autopsy, \u201d Croff said. \u201cThey are doing their due diligence and doing their jobs properly, no matter what is going on in the media. This is a medical case for them. We have no information from them right now.\u2019 \u2019
Cornell was widely regarded as one of his generation\u2019s most formidable rock singers, a powerful and wide-ranged belter with a complex melodic sensibility to go atop Soundgarden\u2019s dark, muscular sound.
The band was part of Seattle’s famous grunge rock scene that included such bands as such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.<\/p>\n

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