Coroners conducted an autopsy on Friday before turning over the body to the singer's family
Police in Minnesota have said there is no sign that Prince, the fêted musician found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis on Thursday, took his own life. Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said at a press conference that the singer had died alone and exhibited “no obvious signs of trauma.” There was, he added, “no reason to believe at this point that this was a suicide.”
It could nonetheless be weeks before the public learns the true cause of the star’s death. He was found slumped in a lift at his Paisley Park home recording studio on Thursday morning. Medical personnel performed CPR at the scene but were unable to revive him, and he was declared dead shortly after 10am.
Coroners conducted an autopsy before turning over the body to Prince’s family. A spokesperson for the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Ramsey, Minnesota said no preliminary findings will be released until the results are complete. In a statement, the Medical Examiner said that would take “several days” while “the results of a full toxicology scan could likely take weeks.”
Prince had reportedly overdosed on a highly-addictive prescription painkiller just days before his death. According to a report by TMZ, which cited multiple unnamed sources, the musician was using the drug Percocet to treat the pain arising from a 2010 hip operation.
In the small hours of 15 April, his jet made an emergency landing in Illinois on the way home from an Atlanta concert, so he could be given a so-called “save shot”, an injection or nasal spray used to counter drug overdoses, the website claimed.
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