Linkin Park Singer Chester Bennington Dead, Commits Suicide by Hanging | TMZ News

Law enforcement sources tell us the singer hanged himself at a private residence in Palos Verdes Estates in L.A. County. His body was discovered Thursday just before 9 AM.

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Linkin Park Singer Chester Bennington Dead, Commits Suicide by Hanging | TMZ News

55 Comments

  1. Unreal. Linkin Park was one of the first bands I ever loved. I stopped listening to them several years ago because I kinda grew out of that type of music but this still hurts. Praying for his children.

    • been hearing them since middle school since Hybrid theory was new. in the early 2000s

    • GrantH Same here mate.. Hybrid Theory was huge for me and my friends but I moved away from them a few years after and started listening to other stuff, but I always have huge respect for any band or musician who influenced me & many others at a young age.

      R.I.P Chester, my thoughts are with the family..

    • GrantH Now music will never heal my broken heart again. Rest in peace you troubled soul.

    • Same… My dad and They helped me to get up always, now that he is not, I feel I can devote the favor.

      RIP Chester B.

      Descansa en Paz, ni MΓ©xico, ni el mundo, ni yo, jamas te olvidaremos.

      We will never forget you.

  2. Wow, just wow, I remember being in jounior high and going through so much, I would run to my room and crank Linkin Park and just let my feeling drift with your music. Thank you Linkin Park for all the lives you have helped and my heart goes out to the entire band and all of your families.

  3. ε¬δΊ†δ½ ηš„ζ­Œε¬δΊ†13εΉ΄γ€‚δΈζƒ³ε€šθ―΄δ»€δΉˆδΊ†γ€‚ R.I.P Chester. Your big fan from china.

  4. 2017 brought us the lose of 2 amazing singers that I grown up listening to Chester Bennington & Chris Cornell. My childhood would have never been the same without the impact that these 2 inspirational talented singers. They’ll always be rocking in my heart. R.I.P Chester and Chris

    • Godam them those that did these guys awesome I’d weather see jz dead but not Beyonce her she can be my sex slave πŸ˜€ I’d make her wear that outfit she wears at the end of song “beautiful nightmare”

    • D Nice your the dumbass! Stupid I did say “sex slave” and nothing about giving her a choice in the matter πŸ˜‰

    • Oh my God why did you make me revisit this post with your jealous comment. Now thinking about straight pounding that beybey in every position imaginable makes me want her even more. I’m can’t wait to be adding her to my collection of sex slave mistresses which includes one of her ex band mates and several other women I must have πŸ™‚

  5. 99.4% of comments: this comment section rude lol das meen

    .6% of comments: we all die. He did firster though

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  6. It’s been said that when people finally decide that they truly want to take their own life they are happy once again. They are happy because they have made peace with the demons and know what they want. It’s terrible that they feel the only solution to their problems is suicide. It’s so sad that there is such a stigma around mental health that people don’t feel they can seek help so they just end their life. Heartbreaking. Thank you for helping me make it through middle school

  7. It’s almost like his newest album One More Light is throughing hints at you that he was going to kill him self

  8. I hate it when people keep saying that “Chester is a coward”, “Chester is Selfish”, “Depression is not an excuse to suicide” and so on. Unless you share the same situation as him, otherwise, shut up and stop acting like an “Expert of Depression”. It is not some simple questions that can be searched through internet.

    Rest in peace, Chester. Hope you won’t face these terrible things in your afterlife.

    • NeverGonna GiveYouUp He was rich he can afford a mental doctor most people dont even have that available and they suffer greater drepression but they still hang on amd in the end depression is not a reasom to suicide

    • Yup, but for a while he was in euphoria and just make it all go away for a moment… Just try to understand people who have simillar problems to his problems

    • Arthur Manson What’s your fucking problem it’s completely true. When committing suicide you are no longer in pain but now everyone who loved you is. Death transfers pain, it doesn’t get rid of it.

    • Shaikhah Sg This really isn’t a time to celebrate finding another kpop fan. A celebrity just died.

    • You literally just said the person that commits suicide is no longer in pain so their pain is indeed gotten rid of. Deep doesnt mean it makes sense

  9. He tried so hard, and got so far ..but in the end, it didn’t even matter

  10. if you listen to the rest of the songs from his playlist it all adds up and sounds like a cry for help 😒😭

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