Linkin Park's Chester Bennington has died aged 41 after an apparent suicide at home.
The 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.
The following morning on Friday, Coroner's office spokesman Ed Winter confirmed that Chester hanged himself from a bedroom door in his home near Los Angeles.
USA Today reported that Winter confirmed authorities were investigating a possible suicide - though they did not disclose any details. He said a half-empty bottle of alcohol was found in the room where Chester's body was found, but no drugs were evident.
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 on Thursday.
The rapper and singer wrote: "Shocked and heartbroken, but it's true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one."
Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, Linkin Park's bassist, simply wrote: "Heartbroken"
While the band are yet to issue an official statement Linkin Park as a whole responded with a poignant, simple, and touching message of their own on Thursday.
Tweeting a picture, with no caption to their official account on Twitter, they chose to remember Chester for the idol and hero to many that he was.
The Californian singer is seen stood in the middle of the crowd at one of the band's gigs, surrounded by a sea of fans.
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Stood with his shirt off, microphone clasped in hand, the One Step Closer hit-maker is surrounded by a sea of lights as the crowd hold up their phones.
The band also changed their official profile page on the micro-blogging site to show the picture as their banner shot, while their profile picture was changed from the band's logo to one of Chester singing.
Stars from across the musical world came forward to offer their condolences to the singer's family and friends.
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Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue and Sixx A.M. tweeted: "I am in tears.Chester just told me how happy he was…..He was such a sweet and talented man……Ifeel so sad for his family,band mates and fans [sic]."
Hayley Williams from Paramore penned a poignant message on her Twitter account, writing: "Artists are ppl compelled to bring beauty into a world that can be so dark. makes sense then that artists are always conscious of darkness."
She added in another tweet: "& maybe at times made more vulnerable by it? i don't know. life can be relentless. heart hurts for Chester's family/band/friends/fans [sic]."
The singer's body was taken away by officials early on Friday morning. At 7:47am local time in Los Angeles, cameras for Good Morning America showed a gurney bearing Chester's body with a sheet covering.
Four uniformed men, believed to be from the coroner's office were seen attending the gurney, as the nu-metal giant left his family home for the last time.
Hours after the late signer made his final journey away from his home, fans of the band began to lay flowers and tributes to the star at the boundary of the property.
Bouquets of flowers were left stacked in a neat row along with pictures and notes to the singer, who passed away at the age of 41.
A large poster was hung on the gate. On it was the message: "Gone but never forgotten, Chester Bennington , 1976-2017." The sign also featured a love heart and the band's symbol.
Amongst the pretty blooms and flowers left by his fans were picture of the singer and personal messages to him. One particular card stood out among the tributes. Partially obscured by flowers was a white sign which features angel wings and a halo in the sky.
Above the drawing was the quote: "The sun has set for you Chester Bennington. RIP."
The message references the band's hit-single Shadow of the Day, which was released from their third studio album, Minutes to Midnight.
The line on the card refers to these lines sung by Chester: "And the sun will set for you/The sun will set for you/And the shadow of the day/Will embrace the world in gray/And the sun will set for you."
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.
Their last album One More Light was a particularly important album to both Chester and the band, as the singer revealed that it had helped him to turn the page on the "darkest time" in his life.
Speaking in an interview in May - obtained exclusively by Mirror Online - as the band prepared to release their seventh LP, the Californian singer revealed the album was to be a very "personal" piece of work, which had been "very therapeutic" for them to write.
“One More Light is for us a very personal and very therapeutic kind of record," he said. "We got into a lot of aspects of our lives that we probably wouldn’t have normally shared with anyone and just dealt with it on our own."
He continued: “For me personally when we first started working on this record I was coming out of the darkest time of my life and it was all s**t that I was doing to myself. It was all stuff that I had control over but even though I felt differently at the time."
Speaking candidly about the bleakness he felt, Chester said: "I felt like the world was full of s**t and everybody I knew was full of s**t and life sucks and I was like ‘F***k it.’ All that stuff it was just internal."
Chester Bennington 1976 - 2015
However, he added that the record was a turning point for him. Opening up about his personal struggle, he revealed that the process had helped him to focus on what was important, while he also said that entering therapy had also aided him.
"It was all really things I could work on if I chose to, and make myself happy," he said. "You know? Make myself capable of dealing with life on life’s terms, like it’s not always going to be peaches and cream but it doesn’t always have to suck when it’s not.
"For me it took a lot of work. It actually took me opening up and talking to my friends about it and writing about it, and like going to therapy and battling my demons."
He revealed it was his wife Talinda, his six children, and indeed his band and friends who had helped him to find the strength to battle his demons.
Chester explained: “I came to a point in my life where I was like, ‘I can either just give up and f***ng die or I can f***ing fight for what I want.’ And I chose to fight for what I wanted. I wanted to have good relationships. I wanted to love the people in my life. I wanted to enjoy my job. I wanted to enjoy being a dad and having friends and just getting up in the morning. Because that was a struggle for me.
Giving an insight into his life at home with Talinda - who he shared three of his children with - the singer received a sweet and encouraging note from his son, Tyler, 11.
A picture shared on Talinda's Twitter shows a mug with a note on it. Posted in June she captioned it: "Our Tyler is the best!"
A note on Chester's mug from Tyler reads: "Dad, enjoy your rehersal or whatever your doing todaye. Love life because it's a 'Casltel of Glass' - Tyler [sic]."
Linkin Park 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.
Linkin Park's last concert date is believed to have been their date at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham, following their shows in London.
Chester was one of the creative driving forces behind the Californian six-piece, who first rose to prominence alongside the likes of Limp Bizkit.
The band first formed in 1996, but it was with 2000's Hybrid Theory that they rose to prominence with hit-singles Crawling, One Step Closer, and In The End.
The band have released seven albums to date, with the last being One More Light, which came out in May of this year.
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