The famous rock musician was found hanged in his home in Los Angeles.

Soloist of the American rock band Linkin Park Chester Bennington committed suicide, reports TMZ. According to the portal, in the past, the 41 years old musician had problems with alcohol and drugs. Also earlier in an interview idol of a generation admitted that he was thinking about suicide.

According to the information of the newspaper, recently Chester was close friends with the frontman of the Soundgarden group Chris Cornell, who brought the scores back to life in May of this year.

Chester Bennington was born on March 20, 1976 in the US state of Arizona. He was part of the bands Gray Daze and Stone Temple Pilots, but became really famous as a vocalist of the bands Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise. The musician starred in several Hollywood films: in the "Saw" where the hero Bennington brutally murdered.