Chester Bennington dead: Linkin Park singer found hanged aged 41

[safinator]

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington has died aged 41 after an apparent suicide at home.

The 41-year-old Papercut singer was found dead at a private residence in Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles, at about 9 a.m. on Thursday.

Police responded to a call of a dead body in a house at Palos Verdes Estates, which is a suburb south of Los Angeles home, which law enforcement officials confirmed was the rock star's home.


Chester Bennington has reportedly killed himself

Linkin Park star Chester Bennington 'found dead' on birthday of late friend Chris Cornell

Mirror Online have contacted the singer's representatives for comment.

Chester leaves behind his second wife Talinda and six children. His bandmate and fellow frontman, Mike Shinoda, paid tribute to Chester just hours after the news broke.

The rapper and singer wrote: "Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one."


The Linkin Park frontman's body was reportedly discovered on Thursday morning

Chester leaves behind his second wife Talinda (pictured) and six children
Linkin Park were one of the seminal bands of the Noughties rap-metal movement, with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, considered to be a metal masterpiece.

The band were in the middle of a world tour for their latest studio effort, One More Light, and had just wrapped up a European leg.

Their next date the band were scheduled was supposed to be was July 27 in Massachusetts.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/chester-bennington-linkin-park-dead-10840345

[safinator]

Such a sad story, Linkin Park were a part of my childhhood.

[Catholic Riffs]

the dude had 6 kids and a wife, fucked up

[Odin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwjAouF0jRU

^ My fav Linkin Park song. RIP. :shocked:

[Linebacker]

I thought this one was fake news,since TMZ posted it.

Damn it Chester.

[Babak]

In the end..it does matter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4

[Al-Meksiki]

So long Linkin Park and Stone Temple Pilots

[Óttar]

Six kids, wtf. I don't understand these guys. They're rock stars which means that they have at least > $5,000,000. If I had that much money, I'd party with floozies and get a nice Adderall prescription.

Dieses Pulver laesst euch fliegen! Um jeden Gegner schnell besiegen!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRB27kFOG0

:rockon:

[Dandelion]

The hero of the guys who wore their pants low when I was a teen, which ironically was more of a ghetto black dress code in the US. Over here it was a 'skater' dress code. Many skaters were posers, though, and were only in it for just the subculture and that Linkin Park was their most stereotypical band they listened to.

US Americans probably will laugh at our rural backwater ways of consuming their culture!

[Porn Master]

bad end

[Annie999]

I believe Chris Cornell's own suicide had an impact on him. He even died on Cornell's birthday.

They were so close he was the godfather of one of Cornell's children.

[Dandelion]

I believe Chris Cornell's own suicide had an impact on him. He even died on Cornell's birthday.

Even the same method. It's a horrible way to go.

[zarzian]

Star whackers still at it.

[Herr Abubu]

Celebrity suicides are often not suicides. I don't know about Chester Bennington, but some recent deaths like Robin Williams', Chris Cornell's and Whitney Houston's are pretty suspicious. 'Suicided' is a better term.

[Kamal900]

That's really fucked up. I grew up listening to the band since I was just 9 years old, and to see the main singer of the band to commit suicide is the most shocking news I've heard this year. He must have had a very tough life for him to take his own life away.

[The Illyrian Warrior]

Oh shit, I just heard about his death in BBC, really liked him as singer in Linkin Park.......RIP. :(

[Babak]

Celebrity suicides are often not suicides. I don't know about Chester Bennington, but some recent deaths like Robin Williams', Chris Cornell's and Whitney Houston's are pretty suspicious. 'Suicided' is a better term.

what do you think happened

[Kriptc06]

this song makes more sense now, sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4

[Dick]

RIP. Great singer and performer. My favorite Park song


https://youtu.be/Gd9OhYroLN0



Celebrity suicides are often not suicides. I don't know about Chester Bennington, but some recent deaths like Robin Williams', Chris Cornell's and Whitney Houston's are pretty suspicious. 'Suicided' is a better term.

Yup. Chris Cornell's family said he had taken more than his prescribed dose of Ativan. Side effects of using Ativan include suicidal thoughts. Usually these "Rock star" deaths are mishaps. For example Jimi Hendrix choking on his own vomit while asleep from alcohol consumption.

[War Chef]

Another victim of dukkha

[Harkonnen]

Too bad but truth to be told in my opinion Linkin Park was kinda goofy band.

[War Chef]

Linkin Park was for posers and wanna-be cool kids.... while you fags were listening to it, I was listening to Senses Fail and My Chemical Romance banging emo cuties

[Dandelion]

Linkin Park was for posers and wanna-be cool kids.... while you fags were listening to it, I was listening to Senses Fail and My Chemical Romance banging emo cuties

If you didn't add the 'emo cuties' part, I wouldn't have thumbed you up because of your mention of MCR.

[Herr Abubu]

what do you think happened

I don't know. I'm just saying that you should never trust the official story about any suicide if the dead person is famous or important in any way.

Whitney Houston f.e. supposedly drowned herself in her bathtub, which is strange in itself, but the water was scalding hot and she wouldn't have been able to stay in the bathtub nearly long enough. It was clear that she had been beaten up before her death. Suicided is the only appropriate word.

Then you have things occurring like bankers and high-ups in the oil industry supposedly committing suicide by shooting themselves 11 times in the head with a nail gun and somehow sealing themselves into one of those big vacuum bags for tuxedos.

[ÁGUIA]

Hard to understand when one has 6 kids, and does not find motivation to live.
RIP

[NordicMan]

I wept. This is sad. RIP Chester.