Dave Matthews Band member LeRoi Moore dies
FOUNDING member of the Dave Matthews Band, saxophonist LeRoi Moore, has died of complications from a vehicle accident in June.
A statement on the band’s website said Moore died unexpectedly overnight at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Moore had been injured in June while riding an all-terrain vehicle near his farm in Charlottesville, Virginia, the statement said.
He had recently returned to his home in Los Angeles to begin rehabilitation.
He was 46.
Their website blog states:
08/19/2008
We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.
