Would have died of an overdose of psychoactive substances: Prosecutor’s Office

The Prosecutor’s Office informed that it will proceed with the pertinent investigations to clarify the facts about the death of Taylor Hawkins. Taken from Twitter @Fiscaliacol

A preliminary police report indicated that “The cause of death is yet to be established, according to versions of relatives, the death could be associated with the consumption of narcotic substances.”

A trill shared by Luis Carlos Vélez, director of the station La FM, assured that the drummer underwent different forensic examinations to determine the causes of death, however, the press release of the Attorney General’s Office, those in charge of carrying out the procedures found the following:

“In the urine toxicological test performed on the body of Taylor Hawkins, 10 types of substances were preliminarily found, including: THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opioids”, and added that they will continue with the pertinent investigations to obtain more details of his death.

However, according to Semana, forensic doctors They were shocked when they saw the size of Taylor Hawkins’ heart, since it weighed at least 600 grams and presented heart failure due to the amount of hallucinogenic substances he consumed the artist a few hours before appearing on stage.

The information of the overdose that the drummer of Foo Fighters It had already been raised at the time of delivery of the statement and the different forensic inspections that were carried out during the removal of the body.

“Taking into account that no signs of violence are observed, an overdose is preliminarily proposed as a hypothesis of death; awaiting scientific technical opinion”added an aside to said preliminary report.

This was not the first time that the drummer suffered from an overdose of psychoactive substances, since on one occasion in 2001 he had been under the influence of drugs for which he was in a coma. He spoke about the fact in 2021 during an interview for Kerrang magazine.

“Everyone has their own path and I took it too far. I was partying in London one night and I did something by mistake and it changed everything. I believed in the bullshit myth of living hard and fast and dying young.” expressed the drummer for the British magazine.

After making this confession, the drummer of the American band made a deep reflection on what happened on that night in 2001, when he remained in a coma for nearly a week due to the drug cocktail he consumed.

Needless to say, his followers mourn his death around the world, as several rock stars and the music scene have lamented this loss for the industry, including Ozzy Osbourne, Ringo Starr, Juanes, Gene Simmons, among others. Some of the messages were accompanied by images of the artist as he used to do it, with a smile on his face, enjoying the stages and the company of the public.

The famous drummer Taylor Hawkins, member of the American rock band Foo Fighters, He passed away on the night of March 25, hours before his presentation at the Estéreo Picnic Festival and the first hypotheses indicated that it was a pain in the chest, however, according to the magazine Semana and the radio station La FM about the death , the authorities would have confirmed that this was caused by a mixture of heroin with antidepressants, whose tests showed about 10 types of psychoactive substances.