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Posted Dec 05, 1998 12:00 AM

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On this day in 1993, ex-Gin Blossoms lead guitarist Douglas Hopkins shot and killed himself at his home in Tempe, Ariz. Hopkins, who was fired the previous year because of his drinking habit, was 32.