GWAR-frontman gestorven aan overdosis heroïne

David Brockie, de frontman van de Amerikaanse heavy metalband GWAR, stierf op 23 maart 2014. Zijn doodsoorzaak is inmiddels bekend en het blijkt dat de zanger een overdosis heroïne tot zich had genomen, dit bericht Reuters. Je kan hieronder een fragment uit het artikel lezen.

Brockie, 50, who gained an international fan base performing as a 43-billion-year-old alien vocalist for the satirical band, was found by his roommate on March 23 dead in his Richmond home.

Brockie died from “acute heroin toxicity and the manner of death is accident,” Arkuie Williams, administrator of the medical examiner’s office, said in an email.

U.S. deaths from heroin have soared as prescription painkiller abusers turn to the drug because it is cheaper. Across the United States, the number of fatal opiate overdoses increased 45 percent from 2006 to 2010.