A memorial to Soundgarden vocalist and guitarist Chris Cornell is pictured at KEXP on May 18, 2017 in Seattle, Washington. Cornell was found dead in his hotel room in Detroit. (Photo: Stephen Brashear / Getty Images) 
 
 Just minutes after Soundgarden’s concert at the Fox Theatre ended Wednesday night, frontman Chris Cornell was back in his hotel room at the MGM Grand, talking by phone with his wife. 
 
 What Vicky Cornell heard alarmed her. 
 
 Her husband was slurring his words, sounded groggy and kept repeating: “I’m just tired,” according to a family statement and a police report obtained by The Detroit News. 
 
 She asked the band’s bodyguard to check on Cornell, who busted into the room and made a gruesome discovery: the alternative rocker was on the bathroom floor “with blood running from his mouth and a red exercise band around (his) neck,” according to the report. 
 
 Within two hours, Cornell, 52, was pronounced dead. The police report, filed by officers from the Detroit Police Gaming Unit who responded to the scene, describes the final moments of the singer’s life and the start of the investigation into how he died. 
 
 What happened in those two hours is already a matter of significant dispute between a family that doesn’t believe he would have intentionally taken his own life and the Wayne County medical Examiner’s Office, which declared his death a suicide by hanging. 
 
 About an hour before he was found, Cornell had walked off stage with his bandmates about 11:15 p.m. to the raucous cheers of a sellout crowd of more than 5,000 fans. 
 
 Within 15 minutes, Cornell was back in Room 1136 at the MGM, where bodyguard Martin Kirsten helped fix the star’s computer and gave him two doses of an anti-anxiety medicine, according to the police report. 
 
 At 11:35 p.m., Cornell was on the phone with his wife. 
 
 She called Kirsten at 12:15 a.m., and the bodyguard went to the room and found the door locked, the report said. Kirsten kicked the door open, only to find a second door leading to the bedroom suite also was latched — so, the report said, he kicked that door open, too, and found Cornell. 
 
 In a statement issued by Vicky Cornell and attorney Kirk Pasich, the lawyer said the family needs the results of toxicology tests to be sure what happened to the alternative rocker. 
 
 “The family believes that if Chris took his life, he did not know what he was doing, and that drugs or other substances may have affected his actions,” Pasich said. 
 
 In the statement, Vicky Cornell said she spoke to her husband before and after the concert and noticed during the later conversation that he was slurring his words. 
 
 “He was different,” she said. “When he told me he may have taken an extra Ativan or two, I contacted security and asked that they check on him.” 
 
 According to the police report, Kirsten gave Cornell two Ativan pills, “which victim takes for anxiety,” the report said. 
 
 A Soundgarden publicist said band members are not speaking publicly about Cornell’s death. 
 
 Buy Photo Rachel Montgomery holds a photograph of Chris Cornell outside the Fox Theatre in tribute to Chris Cornell. (Photo: Max Ortiz / The Detroit News) 
 
 Officials with Olympia Entertainment, which owns the Fox Theatre, did not respond to a request for comment. 
 
 After hearing from Vicky Cornell, Kirsten walked two doors down to Cornell’s suite, to which he had a key, but found the door latched, the report said. “(Kirsten) called security from hotel phone in hallway ... stating he needs to get into (the) room to check on (the) victim,” the report said. 
 
 “Security stated they can not let him into the room because he is not registered to that room,” the report said. “At this time (Kirsten) kicked in the door with his feet and ... went to the bedroom door and (the) latch had been engaged on this door also. 
 
 “(Kirsten) again called for security but could not gain access to (the) room,” the report said. “At this time (Kirsten) kicked in (the) bedroom door and found victim laying on the bathroom floor.” 
 
 Buy Photo Julie Webber holds flowers and candles in rememberance of Chris Cornell outside the Fox Theatre in tribute to Chris Cornell on Friday, May 19, 2017. (Photo: Max Ortiz / The Detroit News) 
 
 MGM medic Dawn Jones arrived at the room at 12:56 a.m., the report said. “Jones untied the red exercise band from (the) victim’s neck and began CPR on (Cornell, who) was not breathing.” 
 
 EMS Unit 42 was at the scene by 1 a.m. An emergency medical technician also unsuccessfully performed CPR on Cornell, according to the report. 
 
 “At 1:30AM on 5/18/2017, victim was pronounced dead (by a doctor who came to the scene),” the report said. 
 
 Homicide detectives arrived at the room and began their investigation, while another officer phoned Cornell’s wife to break the news he’d been found dead. 
 
 “Victim’s wife ... stated victim is a recovered drug addict,” the report said. 
 
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 Staff Writers Adam Graham and Stephanie Steinberg contributed. 
 
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 Chris Cornell Used Exercise Band and Sturdy Clip Device to Hang Himself 
 
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 Chris Cornell used a common piece of exercise equipment to take his own life. 
 
 We've learned the Soundgarden frontman secured a red elastic exercise band attached to a carabiner to the top of his hotel bathroom door. A carabiner is a device commonly used by mountain climbers which they attach to a belt to keep them from falling. The device can withstand enormous weight. 
 
 Cornell jammed the door shut with the carabiner at the top of the frame. The carabiner was jammed so tight it left an indentation in the door frame. 
 
 As we reported, Chris' family believes he may have taken his life while under the influence of Ativan, and that he had no plan or desire to commit suicide just hours earlier. 
 
 According to the police report, obtained by The Detroit News, Chris was on the phone with his wife, Vicky, shortly before committing suicide, who said he sounded "groggy" and repeatedly told her, "I am just tired," before hanging up. 
 
 Vicky became alarmed, called the hotel and Chris' security guard kicked down 2 doors and found him in the bathroom with blood running from his mouth. ||||| On Thursday, Tom Morello paid tribute to his late friend and Audioslave bandmate Chris Cornell on Instagram. "Thank you for your friendship and your humor and your intellect and your singular and unmatched talent," the guitarist's post read. 
 
 That same night, he wrote a poem in tribute to Cornell, which appears in full below. 
 
 Related Tom Morello, Jimmy Page, Courtney Love Remember Chris Cornell Soundgarden, Audioslave singer found dead of apparent suicide at age 52 on early Thursday morning 
 
 You're a prince, you're a snare, you're a shadow 
 
 You're twilight and star burn and shade 
 
 You're a sage, you're a wound shared, you're masked 
 
 You're a pillar of smoke, you're a platinum heart 
 
 You're a brush fire, you're caged, you're free 
 
 Your vision pierces, you do not see 
 
 You are pieces strewn on the hillside 
 
 You're open armed, you're armed, you're true 
 
 You're a revealer of visions, you're the passenger, you're a never fading scar 
 
 You're twilight and star burn and shade 
 
 You're the secret veiled, you're the secret revealed, you're surrounded no more 
 
 You're not there, now you're always here 
 
 You're a handsome groom, a loving father, a haunted stairwell 
 
 You're the clear bell ringing, the mountains echo your song 
 
 Maybe no one has ever known you 
 
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– Chris Cornell kept saying "I'm just tired" in his final phone conversation with his wife, according to a police report with more details on the final hour of the Soundgarden frontman's life. Vicky Cornell, alarmed by how different her husband sounded, called band bodyguard Martin Kirsten, who had to kick in two latched doors before he found the 52-year-old dead on the bathroom floor with "blood running from his mouth and a red exercise band" around his neck, according to a police report seen by the Detroit News. His death was ruled suicide by hanging, but Vicky Cornell says he told her he "had taken an extra Ativan" or two, and she believes the anti-anxiety medication or other substances may have clouded his judgment. According to TMZ, Cornell used a piece of climbing equipment to secure the exercise band to the bathroom door at his suite in the MGM Grand Hotel in Detroit. Less than an hour earlier, the band had played a sold-out show in front of 5,000 fans. Soundgarden had been scheduled to play the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio Friday night, Pitchfork reports. Instead, artists including Bush and Live paid tribute to Cornell by covering songs by his bands Soundgarden, Audioslave, and Temple of the Dog. Rolling Stone reports that Rage Against the Machine co-founder Tom Morello paid tribute to his former Audioslave bandmate with a moving poem, which can be seen in full here.