Smith Autopsy Inconclusive

Two months after Elliott Smith’s death, the Los Angeles coroner’s
office said that it could not conclusively confirm that the fatal
knife wound to his chest was self inflicted.

“The trauma that he sustained could have been inflicted by him
or by another and the coroner has not been able to make a
determination,” a spokesman for the coroner said.

Smith, 34, was found by his live-in girlfriend at their Los
Angeles apartment on October 21st with a stab wound in his chest.
He was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The
Los Angeles Police department listed the death as a suicide.

Initial reports claimed Smith died of a single trauma, but the
coroner found that he suffered “two penetrating stab wounds” to the
chest. Though Smith had struggled with addiction for several years,
the coroner’s investigation turned up no signs of illegal or
controlled substances in his system.

According to the LAPD, Smith’s death remains an open
investigation.