The Hawkins family is now preparing for the funeral, as investigators completed the autopsy at the weekend after the drummer’s death on Friday.
Researchers in the Colombian capital, Bogota, have confirmed that Hawkins consumed ten substances, including marijuana, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids.
Hawkins and his wife Allison were photographed at the State Department dinner for The Kennedy Center Honors on December 1 last year.
Alison Hawkins, pictured in 2013, received the green light to prepare for the funeral of Taylor’s late husband after his death.
An emotional Dave Grohl cried as he hugged his friends at LAX on Saturday night
Grohl, 53, appeared devastated as he hugged a man who appears to be manager John Silva after the band returned to the US from a tour of South America.
Local reports also said a police officer found white powder “similar to cocaine” and hallucinogenic in Hawkins’s hotel room.
A private funeral director prepares to send Hawkins to his home for burial.
Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl was seen crying as he hugged the band’s friends at LAX on Saturday night.
The band returned to Los Angeles after Hawkins’s tragic death from a “cardiovascular collapse”.
Grohl, 53, appeared devastated as he hugged a man who appears to be his manager, John Silva, after the band returned to the US.
In his memoir, The Storyteller, Grohl referred to Hawkins as his “best friend and accomplice in crime,” someone who illuminated the rooms with a sparkling presence and a constant “toothed smile.”
They were also photographed when guitarists Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett, keyboardist Rami Jaffee and singer Samantha Sidley arrived in Los Angeles.
They landed on a private plane before being photographed mourning the tragic loss.
An autopsy found that Hawkins’ heart weighed twice that of an average man his age and that the musician had suffered heart failure after consuming a cocktail of drugs.
Medical examiners said Hawkins’s ticket weighed “at least 600 grams” – twice the average of 300 to 350 grams for someone his age – during an examination following his shocking death at a luxury hotel in the capital, according to Colombian magazine Capana.
Authorities have confirmed that the drummer overdosed on heroin mixed with antidepressants and benzodiazepines, including the antiepileptic drugs known as benzos.
Taylor and Alison Hawkins attend the Billboard Women in Music 2019 Awards in Hollywood. They were married for 17 years
Also photographed were guitarists Pat Smear and Chris Shiflett, keyboardist Rami Jaffee and singer Samantha Sidley. They landed on a private plane before being photographed mourning the tragic loss
Friends and friends of the tour exchanged hugs at the airport after the tragic death of Hawkins, which included a cocktail with at least 10 different drugs, according to the office of the Colombian Attorney General
Foo Fighters was created in 1994 by Grohl, the former Nirvana drummer, after the suicide of singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain.
Tour members and others hug outside LAX as Foo Fighters return to the US after the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins on Friday
Concerns about the drummer’s health first surfaced on Friday night, when he began complaining of chest pains before the band performed at the Estereo Picnic Festival in Bogota.
Hawkins’s last show was at Lollapalooza 2022 in Santiago, Chile on March 18 (above). The Foo Fighters were scheduled to play another Lollapalooza in Brazil on Sunday
Well-known Colombian journalist Luis Carlos Velez, director of the Bogota-based FM radio station, said earlier today that a police officer who entered Hawkins’s room at the Four Seasons Hotel Casa Medina told prosecutors he saw a cocaine-like white. powder.
However, the Office of the Attorney General of Bogota (AGO) did not mention cocaine in its statement after the autopsy.
Concerns about the drummer’s health first surfaced on Friday night, when he began complaining of chest pains before the band performed at the Estereo Picnic Festival in Bogota.
Subsequently, his condition worsened and attempts at resuscitation by a private doctor and emergency personnel failed.
In a statement issued late Saturday, Colombia’s AGO said: “Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins was found dead in a hotel room in Bogota on Friday.
“After the completion of the initial forensic examination of the corpse, AGO would like to announce the following:
“1) Preliminary results of the urine toxicology test indicate the presence of 10 different substances: THX (Marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids, among others.
“2) The National Institute of Forensic Medicine continues to conduct the necessary medical studies to determine the cause of death.
“3) AGO will continue to investigate and will duly update the findings of the forensic examinations in due course.
Taylor Hawkins (left), daughter Annabelle Hawkins (center) and wife Alison Hawkins (right) were photographed together at the premiere of Studio 666 in Los Angeles last month
Taylor Hawkins is photographed with a young fan in Paraguay a few days before his death. Help 9-year-old Emma Sophia fulfill her dream of playing drums with his band, Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters hold candles lit outside Casa Medina today where band drummer Taylor Hawkins was found dead
The Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported that a confidential report he was informed of showed hallucinogens – mind-altering drugs that may contain LSD – found inside the hotel room. (Image, archive image of a hotel room in Casa Medina)
Members of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) remove the lifeless body of Foo Fighters rock drummer Taylor Hawkins at the Casa Medina Hotel in Bogota, Colombia.
Hawkins, a father of three, suffered a heroin overdose in London in 2001 that left him in a coma for about a week.
In an interview last year, he admitted: “Everyone has their own way and I went a long way. I was having a party in London one night, and I accidentally did something and it changed everything.
“I believed in his bullshit to live hard and fast, to die young.
“I am not here to declare that I do not take drugs, because I liked to take drugs, but I got out of control for a while and it almost took me.”
An unconfirmed local report said several glasses were found inside the drummer’s room, sparking speculation that he was entertaining guests before his death.
The Colombian Public Prosecutor’s Office, in its first official comments on the tragedy, confirmed: dealing with emergencies and supporting research. ”
The Bogota Metropolitan Police, in a statement broadcast by several Colombian newspapers, said: “The cause of death has not yet been determined. “According to people close to him, the death could be related to drug use.”
Local reports said hotel staff called emergency services after Hawkins suffered chest pains but was already dead when doctors arrived.
The Foo Fighters were scheduled to perform at a concert in the Colombian capital.
Taylor Hawkins was photographed with what is believed to be her last time on social media on Wednesday. Appears on a plane with band member Pat Smear (left) and Samantha Sidley (right) working for the band on Wednesday, March 23, 2022
White “cocaine-like” and hallucinogenic powders were reportedly found in the five-star Casa Medina hotel room of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died at the age of 50. (Above, archive image of a hotel room at Casa Medina in Bogota)
Shortly after the announcement of Hawkins’s death, dozens of fans, along with journalists and videographers, began to gather outside the hotel where the band was staying.
Many seemed to be in complete shock with the news with some candles burning.
Ambulances and police patrols can be seen outside the accommodation.
Later Friday night, Hawkins’ body was finally transported from the hotel, placed in a medical examiner’s truck, and removed.
The band was scheduled to play at the Festival Estereo Picnic in the Colombian capital, where an announcement told viewers that the band would not be playing due to a “serious medical condition”.
Hawkins, who was married to illustrator Alison and the father of three children, Oliver, Annabelle and Everleigh, had just completed a tour of South America with the band last playing in San Isidro, Argentina, last Sunday.
A sheet is held as Hawkins’s body is transported to a medical examiner by forensic examiners outside the Casa Medina Hotel.
The cause of death was not immediately announced, but the band revealed that it was “devastated by the tragic and premature loss” (pictured left) in a tribute posted on their social media page. Pictured right: an announcement on stage where the Foo Fighters were due to perform on Friday told the public that the band would not be performing due to a “serious medical condition”
People react outside the Casa Medina Hotel, where Taylor Hawkins, drummer of the band Foo Fighters, was staying
Hawkins joined the band in 1997 after the band completed their second album, The Color and the Shape.
Prior to joining Foo Fighters, Hawkins played drums for Alanis Morissette, from whom he was hired by frontman Dave Grohl – the legendary Nirvana drummer.
Some fans prayed and lit candles for the legendary drummer who died in his hotel room on Friday night
Grohl formed the second band Foo Fighters in 1994 in the wake of a previous tragedy, just months after Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide.
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