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Tom Petty ‘still clinging to life,’ TMZ reports

LOS ANGELES — Rocker Tom Petty is “still clinging to life” at a Southern California hospital, TMZ reports. CBS News received confirmation of P...

LOS ANGELES — Rocker Tom Petty is “still clinging to life” at a Southern California hospital, TMZ reports.

CBS News received confirmation of Petty’s death by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) earlier this afternoon Though, the LAPD issued two tweets later noting that “initial information was inadvertently provided to some media sources.”

Petty, 66, was rushed to Santa Monica Hospital Sunday night — paramedics found him unconscious, not breathing and in full cardiac arrest at his Malibu home, the entertainment site adds.

A decision was made to pull Petty from life support after he got to the hospital and had no brain activity.

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