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The Soundgarden frontman died at age 52 on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, after the band played a sold-out concert in Detroit. He was found dead in his hotel room by a family friend. The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement to Us Weekly that the musician’s cause of death was “hanging by suicide.”