Overview
- Audio obtained by media captures a caller identified as Keely finding Rivers face down in a blood‑stained bathroom at his Florida home and starting CPR.
- Deputies continued CPR until St. Johns County Fire Rescue arrived and pronounced the 48‑year‑old bassist dead at the scene.
- The incident report notes a cut above Rivers’ eye and a small amount of coagulated blood in the bathroom, with a possible fall from the toilet referenced.
- A deputy observed Rivers’ face and neck were dark blue with the rest of his body flushed, a pattern the report says is commonly seen in pulmonary embolism, but no cause of death has been determined.
- Keely told deputies Rivers had a 2018 liver transplant and was on related medications, and promoters still list the band’s Central and South American tour dates as scheduled.