What Happened To Tom Petty? Singer Hospitalized After Found Unconscious

Update — Monday, October 2 at 5:45 p.m. EDT: The Los Angeles Police Department clarified on Twitter Monday evening that it had "no information about the passing of singer Tom Petty and that "initial information was inadvertantly [sic] provided to some media sources." CBS had previously cited the LAPD as confirming that the singer was dead.

TMZ reported Monday that the "singer is not expected to live throughout the day, but he's still clinging to life."

Update — Monday, October 2 at 4:10 p.m. EDT: Petty was confirmed dead, CBS News reported. Celebrities flocked to Twitter to mourn the rocker. Some of their tweets have been posted below:

Update — Monday, October 2 at 3:40 p.m. EDT: Petty was taken off life support, TMZ wrote in an update. The star reportedly had no brain activity when he arrived at the hospital.

Original story:

Rocker Tom Petty was hospitalized Sunday after he was found unconscious in his Malibu, California home, TMZ reported the following day. He was not breathing and was in full cardiac arrest, according to authorities.

His current condition wasn’t immediately known.

Petty, 66, still had a pulse when first responders arrived, but he was apparently in critical condition. They rushed him to UCLA Santa Monica. The lead singer of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers was reportedly put on life support.

Petty is best known for hits like “Breakdown,” “Free Fallin,’” “American Girl, ”“You Don’ Know How It Feels” and “I Won’t Back Down.” He and his band rose to fame in the '70s. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

Petty played his last show last Monday at the Hollywood Bowl. It was for his band's 40th anniversary tour.

TMZ was in touch with people Petty's camp, but they did not want to speak on the record. They were upset, however, about the singer's condition, the publication noted.

Petty's official Twitter account shared a message three hours before TMZ reproted his hospitalization. It was a photo of the star playing the piano. The tweet read: “With 'She's The One' Director Ed Burns at The Village Recorder, Los Angeles CA - 1996 (: Robert Sebree) #TPHB40 100/365.”

Petty told Rolling Stone in December it was likely his last tour with the band. “It's very likely we'll keep playing, but will we take on 50 shows in one tour? I don't think so. I'd be lying if I didn't say I was thinking this might be the last big one,” he said. “We're all on the backside of our sixties. I have a granddaughter now I'd like to see as much as I can. I don't want to spend my life on the road. This tour will take me away for four months. With a little kid, that's a lot of time.”

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