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Fact #103153

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Short story:

Del Shannon commits suicide by shooting himself with a .22-caliber rifle at his home in Santa Clarita, California, USA, while being treated for depression with the anti-depressant drug Prozac.

Full article:

Dan Bourgeoise (personal manager) : It had to be impulsive. In the end he must have felt alone. All the paranoid things that made him write those songs he wrote like Runaway - I think he just ended up being that lonely guy.

He was disoriented, and he was sick and he started to do all kinds of worst-case scenarios in his head.
(Source : not known)