Overview
- A neighbor found him unresponsive on his Chilmark kitchen floor at 2:25 p.m. Monday and called 911, police said.
- Officers arrived within minutes and pronounced him dead at the scene; the state police detectives unit will handle the case per standard procedure.
- The cause of death remains undetermined, though family friends say he was hospitalized after a seizure last year and had been taking anti-seizure medication.
- Forté lived in Chilmark for about a decade with his wife, photographer Lara Fuller, and their children, Wren, 10, and Hale, 7.
- The Brooklyn-born musician co-wrote and produced on the Fugees’ The Score, released solo work, and recently scored projects including a 2024 HBO revival of Eyes on the Prize and a Kerouac documentary.