Bob Bryar, erstwhile drummer for My Chemical Romance, had tanks of nitrous oxide adjacent to him erstwhile helium was recovered dead, according to reports.
TMZ reported that Bryar’s autopsy study — obtained from the Bedford County Medical Examiner successful Tennessee — included unsettling details astir the drummer’s decease astatine 44 successful November.
Bryar’s assemblage was recovered with 3 ample nitrous oxide containers and attached tubing, according to TMZ. While the autopsy study did not specifically mention the “laughing gas” arsenic a origin of death, it noted the canisters appeared acceptable to beryllium inhaled, and raised concerns of a imaginable overdose. The nonstop origin of decease was “best classified arsenic undetermined.”
One obstacle to determining a origin of decease was the body’s authorities of decomposition, which the autopsy described arsenic significant. Bryar was past seen live Nov. 4 and discovered successful his Tennessee location Nov. 26. Additionally, the study noted, the assemblage showed signs of “animal scavenging activity,” and noted that 2 dogs were recovered successful Bryar’s home.
Bryar performed with the radical for six years, including connected its landmark 2006 LP “The Black Parade,” earlier leaving successful 2010. He co-wrote 5 songs connected the band’s astir caller LP, 2010’s “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys.”
After Bryar’s death, My Chemical Romance said successful a connection that “It is with a dense bosom that we accidental goodbye to Bob Bryar, our erstwhile bandmate and an important portion of the past of My Chemical Romance. We nonstop our deepest condolences to his friends and household astatine this time. May helium remainder successful peace.”