Police: PARALLAX Singer Died From Accidental Drowning

September 8, 2005

Todd Hollingshead of The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that Blake Donner, singer of Utah-based hardcore band PARALLAX, and three other Utah County victims who drowned last month inside a tunnel on Provo's Y Mountain had no traces of drugs or alcohol in their bodies, police said Wednesday (Sept. 7).

Provo police Detective Hiatt Bean said a final report from the state Medical Examiner's Office indicated Donner, 24, and his friends died from accidental drowning.

"They were all clean," Bean said. "That room that they went into was just so small. To have four people in there, they had to have been very light-headed when they started heading back."

The four college-age adventurers died in the early morning Aug. 18, when they were trapped in an underground water passageway deep in what some believe may be an abandoned mine in east Provo.

PARALLAX had been working on the band's debut LP, which will still be released through Counterintelligence Recordings. There is no word on when the disc may surface.

For more information on PARALLAX and the circumstances surrounding Donner's death, visit www.counterhq.com.

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