{"id":12768,"date":"2012-02-09T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12768"},"modified":"2012-02-09T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:30:16","slug":"don-cornelius-death-ruled-a-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12768","title":{"rendered":"Don Cornelius&#8217; Death Ruled A Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coroner&#8217;s officials on Tuesday ruled <strong>Don Cornelius&#8217;<\/strong> death a suicide, nearly a week after the <em>&#8220;Soul Train&#8221;<\/em> creator and host killed himself with a gunshot to the head.<\/p>\n<p>The agency made the determination after conducting an autopsy on <strong>Cornelius&#8217;<\/strong> body Friday. Investigators are still awaiting the results of toxicology tests before issuing a final report.<\/p>\n<p>Police quickly ruled out foul play after responding to<strong> Cornelius&#8217;<\/strong> Mulholland Drive home early Wednesday morning. His son had alerted authorities after receiving a call from his father.<\/p>\n<p>His son, <strong>Tony Cornelius<\/strong>, released a statement last week asking for privacy and thanking fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coroner&#8217;s officials on Tuesday ruled Don Cornelius&#8217; death a suicide, nearly a week after the &#8220;Soul Train&#8221; creator and host killed himself with a gunshot to the head. The agency made the determination after conducting an autopsy on Cornelius&#8217; body Friday. Investigators are still awaiting the results of toxicology tests before issuing a final report. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}