Comedy legend Robin Williams was found dead in the bedroom of his home near San Francisco with a belt around his neck and slight wounds to his wrist, police said Tuesday. With an investigation still underway, the Marin County Sheriff's Office said suicide remains the apparent cause of death for the 63-year-old Oscar-winning actor, who had been grappling with severe depression.
"His life ended due to asphyxia due to hanging," said Lieutenant Keith Boyd, the county's assistant coroner, as tributes to Williams - one of finest comedy talents of his generation - poured in from around the world. Williams was found Monday by his personal assistant "in a seated position unresponsive with a belt secured around his neck with the other end of the belt wedged between the clothes closet door and the door frame. "Mr Williams, at that time, was cool to the touch with rigor mortis present in his body," Boyd told reporters, adding that the inside of Williams' left wrist bore superficial cuts.