A report that the LAPD confirmed the singer’s death is inaccurate - the L.A. The singer is not expected to live throughout the day, but he’s still clinging to life. We’re told the family has a do not resuscitate order on Tom. The site posted that Petty was taken off life support and at “10:30 Monday morning (October 2nd), a chaplain was called to Tom’s hospital room. A chaplain came to administer last rights and he was taken off of life support.” He was taken to the hospital and put on life support but there was no brain activity.
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Tom was in full cardiac arrest and unconscious. She hears very soft breathing, tries CPR and it seems he breathes better. You hear another man take the phone but then Dana takes it back. The dispatcher tried to get her to administer CPR, but Dana needed help. According to TMZ: “(Petty's wife) Dana York seemed confused and upset when she dialed 911 on Sunday, October 1st at around 10:45 PM. Petty had wrapped his 40th anniversary tour with the Heartbreakers on September 25th, 2017 at L.A.'s Hollywood Bowl. Before the official announcement came down, fans had spent the better part of October 1st on tenterhooks as word was incorrectly leaked by law enforcement earlier in the day that Petty had died of a heart attack - before it was retracted and announced that he was alive, yet unconscious and pulled off life support. If anyone is going to think heroin is an option because they know my story of using heroin, I can't do this.Three years ago today, (October 2nd, 2017) the rock word faced a particularly harsh blow with the sudden death of the legendary Tom Petty at age 66 at UCLA Medical Center, one day after suffering cardiac arrest at his home. Petty for decades had kept the addiction a secret and, before talking about it to biographer Warren Zanes, told him: "I am very concerned that talking about this is putting a bad example out there for young people. Petty in 2015 opened up about his addiction to heroin in the 1990s. A report by The Washington Post last year showed 582 fatal overdoses from fentanyl in 2014, followed by a surge to 3,946 such deaths in 2016. Fentanyl-related deaths increased nearly 600 percent from 2014 to 2016 in 24 of the nation's biggest cities, according to health departments. "We hope in some way this report can save lives," the family wrote.įentanyl, a synthetic narcotic about 50 times stronger than heroin, is linked to thousands of overdoses and fatalities across the country. The family shared the coroner's report to "spark a further discussion on the opioid crisis." "We knew before the report was shared with us that he was prescribed various pain medications for a multitude of issues including Fentanyl patches and we feel confident that this was, as the coroner found, an unfortunate accident," the family wrote. But the pain soon became unbearable and led Petty to turn to medication, the family said. Out of commitment to his fans, he toured for 53 dates with the fractured hip. Petty's wife, Dana Petty, and his daughter, Adria Petty, wrote in a statement posted to the band's website and Facebook page that Petty had suffered from emphysema, knee problems and a fractured hip. "I don't want to spend my life on the road," he said. He told Rolling Stone at the time that the tour might be his last. He died a week after concluding a nationwide tour with his band, the Heartbreakers. For months, his fans wondered what killed Petty after his death certificate, released about a week later, registered the cause of death as "deferred" pending an autopsy. The cause of his death had until Friday remained a mystery. Tom Petty, the singer and guitarist whose influential music spanned four decades, died in October from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications involving opioids, his family announced Friday.Ī Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner's report reveals that Petty had traces of multiple opioids including fentanyl in his system when he died at age 66 after being found unconscious at his home in Malibu, California. The cause of his death had until Friday remained a mystery.Tom Petty had traces of multiple opioids in his system.
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