Linkin Park lead singer reported dead in suicide -TMZ

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LOS ANGELES, July 20 (Reuters) – Chester Bennington, the lead singer of rock band Linkin Park, was reported to have committed suicide on Thursday at his southern California home.

Celebrity website TMZ, citing law enforcement sources, said Bennington, 41, had hung himself at his Palos Verdes home near Los Angeles.

A Palos Verdes police spokesman could not confirm the report. But spokesman Greg Robinson said in a statement that officers had been dispatched to an address in Palos Verdes early
on Thursday morning.

Representatives of the band did not immediately return calls for comment.