Country star Tom T. Hall’s cause of death at age 85 has been revealed to have been the result of suicide.

According to an autopsy report from the Williamson County Medical Examiner that was obtained by Fox News Digital, Halls died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Aug. 20, 2021, at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. The report notes that a 911 call was received at around 11:15 a.m. that day and EMS quickly responded to the scene to find the singer dead.

"Paramedics confirmed death at approximately 1133 hours, due to obvious injuries," the report states

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Damn that's sad.

I listen to his songs daily.

Sad.

May he rest in peace.

One of my favorites. Sad ending. RIP.

Depression kills sometimes.

Love his music. With his age I just assumed it was natural causes.

RIP old timer.

Don't Forget the Coffee BIlly Joe is the greatest country song of all time.

Same here. I never expected suicide at all.

Very sad. Just another example that you never know what someone is going through.

Terrible news

Don't be so quick to blame mental illness, there are some medical diagnoses, that would have me considering suicide. My mother just passed, after living many years after an aneurysm with very little cognitive function, I would not want to live like that.

I will never understand suicide..
RIP, sir Tom...

That is a good one for sure. Guess Tom like to kill him some hogs!

I think my favorite is "How I got to Memphis" or "The Day Clayton Delaney Died"

Damn…I hate that….R.I.P. Sir

Couldn't word it any better.

It's just, such a permanent solution.
To a temporary problem..

He was a fun performer. I was on the electrical crew that prepared the stage for him and Barbara Mandrell at their Cotton Bowl show. He took the time to meet everyone and say hello. Mandrell was a snob.

Man, that's terrible.

RIP

Two of my favorites by him

Link below:



UPDATE: As I previously reported here, I have been withholding some information that I confirmed to my own satisfaction in August, 2021.

Now that I have the official results, I am sadly (with a mixture of frustration, anger and disbelief, though, honestly, not shock) the first journalist to confirm that TOM T. HALL's grisly cause of death was a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head (via the mouth).

Suicide runs in families, including Hall's, but there were other reasons for Tom's decision. One of the biggest, in my opinion, was Hall's beginning to lose his mobility. (Tom died less than three months after his 85th birthday. I wonder if Hall was aware that, according to the most recently available data- compiled in 2017- from the Society of Actuaries and the Social Security Administration, the average life expectancy for a person who is alive at age 85 is 92 years of age.)

Beyond that, if you're looking for reasons, there were any number of them stemming from Tom's acknowledged history of mental illness. Hall's depression, in turn, impacted the way Tom lived his life. He chose to surround himself with a host of sycophants who apparently saw him as a meal ticket affording them "bragging rights" and, in their estimation, nothing more.

There were others in his life to whom Tom chose not to listen (including approximately a handful of well-meaning, caring people, some of whom should have put themselves first long before they did) that had me relying on my intuition (my having known Tom, one of my mentors- though he preferred to introduce me to others as his "friend"- all of my adult life and the majority of his) before I received the facts. (Efforts to do what Hall's enablers did best- hide- in this case, what turned out to be the first hints of Tom's slowly-developing mild cognitive impairment- began during the 2015 LOUISE SCRUGGS Memorial Forum, before a diagnosis could be confirmed. Again, given Hall's peculiarly unexplained absence, and my presence, at the event that featured a video of an interview Tom granted for the occasion, replete with jump cuts, I was on to the staging secrecy, if only that, and so noted publicly at the time.)

Then there are those uninvestigated (for what seems like obvious reasons) thefts from the Country Music Hall of Fame Library's Tom T. Hall vertical file...

Here is a G-rated summary of nine (9) pages of otherwise lurid, disgusting and graphic details (and methodology sadly familiar to Tom and what remains of his family), that Report readers would expect from a thorough investigation, and to which I am privy: The 911 call was placed at 11:15 a.m. on August 20, 2021 and paramedics arrived 18 minutes later.

The toxicology report suggests that at, at the time of his death, at least one (metabolizing) drug designed to aid in alcohol withdrawal and anxiety management was in Tom's system. (I earned Hall's ire nearly a half-century ago when, naive and otherwise barely out of my teens, I wrote him an ill-advised, but well-meaning and heartfelt letter, beginning "It's not my place to tell you this but, since those whose place it is will not do so, you are an alcoholic.")

As if I was giving Tom information he didn't already know and he would abstain forevermore as a result. Right?

Hey, no one knew what an "intervention" was in those days, let alone how to plan one. And I'd never heard of Al-Anon nor suspected a Vitamin B-12 deficiency, not to mention the relationship between chronic anxiety and the buildup of amyloid plaques.

As I noted, apparently erring, in a Legacy.com remembrance (ever mindful of posting guidelines, with which, given the delay in publication of the post, I thought I had unintentionally violated, I posted another memory), I thought Tom had succeeded in recovery. It never occurred to me that he may have lapsed decades later, and, even though I knew Hall had been on hunting trips in the distant past, that he owned a gun.

Those who did know about such a lethal combination should have sounded an alarm.

That said, as those who knew him best would expect, Tom left no note.

I never believed that the 2012 incident (not to mention earlier, suppressed incidents at his former Brentwood, Tennessee office) occurred as it was reported and subsequently adjudicated, given Hall's organization's prior history with the Williamson County Sheriff's Office. (I was very public about my feelings in my reporting of the Fox Hollow shooting at the time. Had that incident, and prior incidents, been responsibly handled, sans enabling, Tom would have been forced to make better decisions.)

As a 2021 graduate of The Davidson County Sheriff's Office's Citizens Academy, my skepticism has been reinforced by the WCSO's evasion and lack of responsiveness in its handling of Tom Hall's death, beginning with an unwillingness/inability to explain why, given the findings I have reported (which it does not dispute) as it informed me, most recently on November 24, 2021, the investigation remains "open."

It must be noted that there is a possibility that Hall was aware of an informal (and subsequently botched) investigation (having nothing to do with the WCSO) that was underway in the months prior to his death, the details of which will likely surface during an upcoming election cycle, perhaps as opposition research. If that is the case, voices more powerful than my own will establish that there are bungling enablers with (if only figuratively) blood on their hands.


http://stacyharris.com/musicrowreport.html

sometimes we want to go out on our terms, without causing a burden to loved ones....

Didn’t recognize the name, but I urge recognize his music. RIP.

Those are 2 of my favorites also.