Overview
- The Morris County Medical Examiner concluded the KISS co-founder died from blunt trauma injuries to the head sustained in a fall, classifying the death as an accident.
- Findings cited fractures to the back/base of the skull, a subdural hematoma with extensive bleeding, multiple contusions, facial fractures, and evidence of a stroke.
- Frehley fell at his home studio in September, was hospitalized and placed on life support, and died on Oct. 16 at 74 after his family chose to withdraw ventilatory support.
- Doctors attempted interventions, including a hemicraniectomy and procedures to evacuate the hematoma, but the treatments did not succeed.
- Private memorial services were held in the Bronx with Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Peter Criss attending, marking the first death among KISS’s original four members.