Police report confirms guitar icon RONNIE MONTROSE’s death was nothing to do with cancer battle – but may have been related to depression.
Officials investigating the death of RONNIE MONTROSE have confirmed he committed suicide by shooting himself.
Police in San Mateo County, where Montrose lived, had been unable to release details of his passing on March 3 because the investigation wasn’t straightforward.
Now the county’s coroner’s office has released a report stating he died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was more than four times over the legal alcohol limit when he ended his life.
An official statement from his friends and family says:
“We hope you can understand why we wanted to keep this a family matter for as long as possible.
“We can only hope you you choose to celebrate Ronnie’s life, and what his music meant to you, rather than mourn his passing.
“Ronnie would have wanted it that way.
“Please keep his energy, his joy, and his love in your hearts.”
The guitarist, who was 64 when he took his own life at home, was managed by his wife Lieghsa.
She says: “Ronnie had a difficult childhood which caused him to have extremely deep and damaging feelings of inadequacy. He never thought he was good enough.
Now I see he didn’t want to carry these burdens for very much longer.
“I knew I had married an alcoholic – but Ronnie was never anything but loving. He’d always say I got the best version of him, and we were nearly inseparable.”
A Concert For Ronnie Montrose – A Celebration Of His Life In Music has been announced and will take place at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, CA on Friday, April 27th.
