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Stone Temple Pilots Frontman Scott Weiland Dead at 48
Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots performs at the Pepsi Music Festival in Buenos Aires, October 15, 2008. Weiland was found dead December 3 in Minnesota.Marcos Brindicci/Reuters
Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has died, the singer's manager confirmed to the Associated Press on Friday, as reported in the reports that the Bloomington Police Department issued a statement at 11:15 p.m. detailing the events. “On Dec. 3rd at 8:22 p.m., officers responded to a report of an unresponsive adult male in a recreational motor vehicle located in the 2200 block of Killebrew Drive,” the statement read.
It continued: "Officers arrived and determined the adult male was deceased. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will continue investigating the death with updates to come.”
Weiland, who went on to form Velvet Revolver after the Grammy Award-winning Stone Temple Pilots disbanded in 2003, had long-standing issues with substance abuse, Billboard reports.
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