American Head Charge guitarist Bryan Ottoson was found dead in his bus bunk early Tuesday, prior to a concert in North Charleston, SC.
According to MTV.com, North Charleston investigators have determined Ottoson’s death to be the result of a prescription-drug overdose. Police found a pill bottle containing “numerous amounts of prescription medicine” in Ottoson’s bed.
Members of American Head Charge told police they last saw Ottoson alive at around 4 a.m. on the morning of April 18, just as the band was departing Jessup, Maryland, for North Charleston.
Authorities were called to the scene at around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening; by that time, Ottoson was dead.
American Head Charge is in the midst of a North American tour with Mudvayne, Life of Agony and Bloodsimple. The band is expected to miss at least the next three dates of the tour, and it’s unclear whether they will rejoin it at all.
