Chris Cornell Suicide Scene Revealed in Police Photos 
 
 Chris Cornell's Death, Police Release Hotel Room Photos 
 
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 When police entered Chris Cornell's Detroit hotel room they found his belongings, his prescriptions ... and the exercise apparatus he used to commit suicide. 
 
 Detroit PD just released the photos they took of the room during their investigation, and they reveal the bathroom scene where Chris died. The exercise band he rigged on the bathroom door was on the floor, surrounded by a streak of blood. 
 
 There were 3 prescription bottles -- prednisone (anti-inflammatory), omeprazole (antacid) and lorazepam (anti-anxiety). 
 
 In the room itself ... one of Chris' guitars was on a chair, and his iconic shades were on the unmade bed. 
 
 The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Cornell's death a suicide by hanging. ||||| CLOSE The city of Detroit released a 911 call that was placed from the MGM Grand in Detroit after singer Chris Cornell was found non-responsive in his hotel room. Detroit Free Press 
 
 Musician Chris Cornell, known from the rock groups Soundgarden and Audioslave, performs during a concert at Pinkpop 2009, in Landgraaf, The Netherlands, in May 2009. (Photo: VALERIE KUYPERS, EPA) 
 
 After nearly two months of incomplete details, investigative documents from Detroit police help flesh out the final hours of singer Chris Cornell's life. 
 
 The reports, obtained Tuesday by the Free Press, paint a late-night scene of a frantic wife hundreds of miles away, a dogged bodyguard and a crew of emergency personnel futilely trying to rescue the Soundgarden singer, who was discovered unresponsive on a bathroom floor with a band around his neck. 
 
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 The new documents offer few new revelations about that night in May, when Cornell, 52, was pronounced dead in his suite at the MGM Grand Detroit. But they do offer the most complete official account to date, with documents including a 911 call, scene photographs, investigators' reports and a statement from Cornell's bodyguard. 
 
 According to the records, obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, a call from Cornell's wife prompted bodyguard Martin Kirsten to go to the Soundgarden singer's suite — Room 1136 — to check on him "because he did not sound like he was OK." 
 
 Unable to access the locked room, Kirsten kicked open the main door, then did the same with the interior bedroom door. 
 
 "I went inside and the bathroom door was partially opened, and I could see his feet," Kirsten told police in a signed statement. 
 
 The bodyguard loosened the band around Cornell's neck, then tried to resuscitate the singer by compressing his chest, Kirsten said in his statement. 
 
 Additional medical personnel were summoned, and Cornell was pronounced dead at about 1:30 a.m., an hour and 15 minutes after Kirsten was first contacted by Cornell's wife, Vicky Cornell. 
 
 Police determined the death to be a suicide, a department spokesperson said. That matches the ruling made public by the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office the day of Cornell's death. 
 
 The documents released Tuesday chronicle a several-week investigation into the events of May 18, which followed Soundgarden's performance at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. The death of Cornell, one of the signature voices in modern rock, garnered international attention. 
 
 Police photos released Tuesday show the blood-splattered bathroom, the red exercise band presumably used in the hanging and the broken door jamb from the bodyguard's forced entrance. Also pictured were personal effects such as Cornell's Delta airline ticket from New York to Detroit, prescription pill bottles and an acoustic guitar lying on a brown chair. 
 
 Dozens of images in the report were blacked out. No photos of Cornell's body were visible. 
 
 Officials also released audio of a 911 call placed by an apparent hotel employee at 12:56 a.m. reporting a "nonresponsive guest ... inside of Room 1136." 
 
 "The guest was attempting to hang himself," the caller said. 
 
 The 911 operator asked: "He's not breathing?" 
 
 "No," the caller said. 
 
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 Tuesday's documents come amid weeks of uncertainty and speculation about the circumstances around his death. Early on, an attorney for Vicky Cornell said the family was "disturbed at inferences that Chris knowingly and intentionally took his life." 
 
 “He didn’t want to die,” Vicky Cornell told People magazine in an interview published last month. “If he was of sound mind, I know he wouldn’t have done this.” 
 
 CLOSE Chris Cornell's widow has penned a letter addressed to the late Soundgarden front man days after he took his own life. Vicky Cornell writes in the note published online by Billboard that she's sorry she didn't "see what happened to you that night." USA TODAY 
 
 Cornell's autopsy report, released June 2, said toxicology tests detected lorazepam, which is used in the treatment of anxiety and sold as Ativan; pseudoephedrine, a decongestant; naloxone, used to counter effects of opioids; butalbital, a sedative, and caffeine in his system. But the report revealed the drugs "did not contribute to the cause of death." 
 
 Cornell, who was 6-foot-3 and weighed 180 pounds, was in a torn gray T-shirt and black underwear, according to officials. No note was found at the scene. 
 
 As the events surrounding Cornell's death unfolded that night nearly two months ago, Vicky Cornell was on the phone seeking updates, the bodyguard told police. 
 
 "She told me that she called the front desk and they hung up on her," Kirsten's statement said. 
 
 She called back a couple minutes later, another person answered and told her he was hearing about the incident, he said. 
 
 MGM Grand Detroit "has assisted fully with the investigation into this matter," spokeswoman Yvette Monet said in an e-mail to the Free Press. "Out of respect for the family, we will not be providing any information beyond the information that we have already provided to authorities.” 
 
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– A guitar lying on a chair. A plane ticket in pieces. A bathroom floor stained with blood. These are just some of the images contained in a Detroit Police Department report regarding the May death of Chris Cornell, obtained from an FOIA request by the Detroit Free Press. The Press notes that while the report doesn't contain any new bombshells, it does elaborate on what happened the night the 52-year-old Soundgarden singer took his own life at the MGM Grand Detroit, including how bodyguard Martin Kirsten found his body and what emergency workers discovered when they entered his suite. Kirsten went to Cornell's room when Vicky Cornell, the singer's wife, became alarmed because he sounded distraught on the phone. The bodyguard forced his way into the suite and found the awful scene. "I went inside and the bathroom door was partially opened, and I could see his feet," Kirsten says in his statement. He also notes Vicky Cornell told him that when she called the hotel front desk to try to get info, "they hung up on her" the first time around. TMZ has a gallery of the images, some of which are graphic, including photos that show bottles for such prescription drugs as prednisone (an anti-inflammatory), an antacid, and lorazepam, which is used to treat anxiety. The Free Press notes that Cornell's autopsy report, released in early June, said he had the lorazepam in his system, as well as a decongestant, caffeine, a sedative, and naloxone, which is used to reverse the effects of opioids—but the report adds these medications "did not contribute to the cause of death." The report also includes a 911 call from the hotel, but the paper notes "no photos of Cornell's body were visible."