Saw this posted on the newsgroups....
The last days of Layne Staley, what a waste of talent...
here are a couple parts about Layne...
1. The lights were out. The doors locked. A used needle was on the floor,
and $501 in cash was lying next to the toilet. Brown stains of heroin led
from the bathroom floor toward the living room. When police kicked in the
door to Layne Staley's University District apartment on April 19, there, on
a couch, lit by a flickering TV, next to several spray-paint cans on the
floor, not far from a small stash of cocaine, near two crack pipes on the
coffee table, reposed the remains of the rock musician.
A glamour-drug moment it wasn't. Staley, 34, sitting upright, had been dead
for two weeks. According to newly acquired police and medical-examiner
reports, he had morphine, codeine, and cocaine in his system--and he was
holding in his hand another fully loaded syringe of heroin. Once the lead
singer for the popular 1990s grunge band Alice in Chains, Staley had faded
from the headlines. Now he was back, as a statistic.
2. That, too, was Staley's circumstance, according to a police
investigation. In addition to the singer's tracked-up and
paraphernalia-littered bathroom and front room, detectives found a kitchen
counter covered with more used needles, more narcotics pipes, and more
spray-paint cans. Needles also were found beneath Staley when his 86-pound
body was removed. He lived alone in the two-story, three-bedroom apartment
(one bedroom contained toys and video games, another musical instruments;
the master bedroom had a bed and TV). When police played back Staley's
answering-machine tape, it was filled with two weeks' worth of calls asking
where he was.
A Seattle police detective, in his final report, added a somber footnote:
After hearing of the death, Lynnwood police called to say they were holding
the rocker's MTV Music Video Award in their evidence room. Alice in Chains
was voted best hard-rock band runner-up in 1996, and the award apparently
had been stolen or otherwise appropriated. But Staley, for reasons he took
to his grave, never sought to reclaim it.
Very sad.
OfficerNice
The last days of Layne Staley, what a waste of talent...
here are a couple parts about Layne...
1. The lights were out. The doors locked. A used needle was on the floor,
and $501 in cash was lying next to the toilet. Brown stains of heroin led
from the bathroom floor toward the living room. When police kicked in the
door to Layne Staley's University District apartment on April 19, there, on
a couch, lit by a flickering TV, next to several spray-paint cans on the
floor, not far from a small stash of cocaine, near two crack pipes on the
coffee table, reposed the remains of the rock musician.
A glamour-drug moment it wasn't. Staley, 34, sitting upright, had been dead
for two weeks. According to newly acquired police and medical-examiner
reports, he had morphine, codeine, and cocaine in his system--and he was
holding in his hand another fully loaded syringe of heroin. Once the lead
singer for the popular 1990s grunge band Alice in Chains, Staley had faded
from the headlines. Now he was back, as a statistic.
2. That, too, was Staley's circumstance, according to a police
investigation. In addition to the singer's tracked-up and
paraphernalia-littered bathroom and front room, detectives found a kitchen
counter covered with more used needles, more narcotics pipes, and more
spray-paint cans. Needles also were found beneath Staley when his 86-pound
body was removed. He lived alone in the two-story, three-bedroom apartment
(one bedroom contained toys and video games, another musical instruments;
the master bedroom had a bed and TV). When police played back Staley's
answering-machine tape, it was filled with two weeks' worth of calls asking
where he was.
A Seattle police detective, in his final report, added a somber footnote:
After hearing of the death, Lynnwood police called to say they were holding
the rocker's MTV Music Video Award in their evidence room. Alice in Chains
was voted best hard-rock band runner-up in 1996, and the award apparently
had been stolen or otherwise appropriated. But Staley, for reasons he took
to his grave, never sought to reclaim it.
Very sad.
OfficerNice
