Overview
- The death certificate identifies cardiogenic shock as the immediate cause, with vasodilatory shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and alcoholic cirrhosis listed as underlying causes.
- Additional contributing conditions on the document include sepsis, graft-versus-host disease, immunosuppression, chronic kidney disease, and pneumonia.
- Rolling Stone reports he died at UCLA Medical Center after complications related to a liver transplant, and Extra reports he received the transplant in September and was on ECMO a week before his death.
- Escobedo died on November 11 at age 59; the certificate notes he was cremated and records roughly four decades as an entertainer and bandleader of Cleto and the Cletones.
- Jimmy Kimmel paused new episodes, delivered an on-air tribute, and launched fundraisers benefiting UCLA Health and The Animal Foundation in Las Vegas.