{"id":265495,"date":"2025-11-01T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265495\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:07:07","slug":"police-incident-report-sheds-new-light-on-the-death-of-limp-bizkit-bassist-sam-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265495\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Incident Report Sheds New Light On The Death Of Limp Bizkit Bassist Sam Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grim details have emerged regarding the death of Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers last month. The incident report and the 911 call made in connection to his October 18th, 2025 passing have been obtained by TMZ<\/a>. Citing them, the aforementioned publication report that the 48-year-old n\u00fc-metal star died in a fall in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

While a cause of death has yet to be determined, the report noted that he showed signs of injury consistent with suffering a pulmonary embolism \u2014 a blockage of an artery in the lungs caused by a blood clot. CPR was administered in a sadly unsuccessful attempt to save the life of the beloved bassist<\/p>\n

There has been much speculation regarding the passing of Rivers, with a previous report indicating he was found nonresponsive in a state of cardiac arrest<\/a>. That report further noted that Rivers\u2018 demise was an \u201cattended death\u201d call. That term generally refers to an individual being accompanied by a healthcare professional due to facing a life-threatening illness with death being relatively imminent.<\/p>\n

Rivers had previously been seen sporting a shirt with the phrase \u2018fuck cancer\u2019 on it on tour, with his bandmate DJ Lethal showcasing that photo on social media and echoing that sentiment via an added caption in the wake of Rivers\u2018 death.<\/p>\n

Limp Bizkit announced Rivers\u2018 passing in this statement<\/a> on October 18th, describing him as, \u201cthe pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound.\u201d His bandmate Fred Durst later went on to release this video<\/a>, detailing the impact the co-founding Rivers had on the multi-platinum band, calling his contributions \u201cpriceless\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grim details have emerged regarding the death of Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers last month. The incident report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,115658,216,130425],"class_list":{"0":"post-265495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-limp-bizkit","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-sam-rivers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}