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Slipknot bassist died from accidental overdose
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 22 June 2010
Toxicology results following a post mortem examination of the body of Slipknot bassist Paul Gray have found that he died from an accidental overdose of morphine and fentanyl, a synthetic morphine substitute. Signs of significant heart disease were also discovered.
A police spokesman said that Gray did not have a prescription for either of the drugs found in his system and that attempts were being made to ascertain how he had obtained them. He added that there was a possibility of charges being brought against the supplier.
As previously reported, Gray’s body was found at the Town Plaza Hotel in the Iowa city of Des Moines, where Slipknot were based, on 24 May by a member of hotel staff. The remaining members of the band later held an emotional press conference minus their trademark masks.
