I'm watching CNN and they aren't saying whether he is alive or dead. Just that he was rushed to the hospital having been found not breathing and suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance.
It doesn't sound good to me, and I'm guessing that TMZ has taken a chance at declaring the scoop without really knowing but are basing their guess on what they have heard. There's a good chance TMZ is going to be right.
"A man never drinks anything that a plant lives in" --DBone (A Real Man).
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