Loopy City’s frontman Shifty Shellshock died from an unintentional drug overdose after mixing pharmaceuticals with street-purchased medicine … his supervisor has confirmed.
Howie Hubberman defined the singer — actual identify was Seth Binzer — actually needed to show issues round … however sadly, nobody had the instruments to assist him together with his dependancy battle — together with himself.
Howie added to PEOPLE, “Seth Binzer, after battling dependancy and Loopy City’s speedy success with ‘Butterfly,’ by no means was in a position to attain out on a extra profitable degree to take care of his addictions. All of us tried, however finally all of us failed, or Shifty would nonetheless be right here.”
The post-mortem has been accomplished, however reason for demise remains to be “deferred” till the official toxicology report is available in.
As we reported … regulation enforcement sources instantly suspected a doable OD after they discovered drug paraphernalia and a lighter close to the physique on the ground when responding to his place Monday.
All through his life, Binzer had a number of brushes with the regulation. In 2011, he was arrested for excellent warrants after police have been referred to as to a home dispute together with his GF in L.A. In 2023, he bought busted for a DUI in South Carolina.
FWIW, Seth not too long ago introduced he was sober and dedicated to bettering himself. He was solely 49.