Certified by the Butte-Silver Bow County Clerk and Recorder’s office in Butte, Montana, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, the death certificate verified that Blackstock died at 11:13 a.m. at his home in Butte on Thursday, Aug. 7, at the age of 48.

‘Brandon Blackstock passed away peacefully at his home in Butte, Montana on August 7th under hospice care surrounded by his family,’ Silver Bow County Coroner Dan Hollis said, confirming that Blackstock’s cause of death was melanoma, a form of skin cancer and that the manner of death was natural causes.