• Chester Bennington sings during the MMRBQ Music Festival 2015 at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, New Jersey. The Los Angeles County coroner says Bennington, who sold millions of albums with a unique mix of rock, hip-hop and rap, has died in his home near Los Angeles. He was 41. Coroner spokesman Brian Elias says they are investigating Bennington's death as an apparent suicide but no additional details are available. | OWEN SWEENEY / INVISION / VIA AP
    Chester Bennington sings during the MMRBQ Music Festival 2015 at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, New Jersey. The Los Angeles County coroner says Bennington, who sold millions of albums with a unique mix of rock, hip-hop and rap, has died in his home near Los Angeles. He was 41. Coroner spokesman Brian Elias says they are investigating Bennington's death as an apparent suicide but no additional details are available. | OWEN SWEENEY / INVISION / VIA AP

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LOS ANGELES – Chester Bennington, the lead singer of rock band Linkin Park, was found dead on Thursday at his Southern California home in an apparent suicide, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said.

Coroner’s office spokesman Brian Elias said his office had been notified by law enforcement of the death of Bennington, 41, on Thursday morning. Elias said the death was being handled as an apparent suicide.

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