Overview
- Officials say the Palm Beach County incident report confirms Claude Lemieux died by suicide by hanging on May 28, 2026.
- The report says his wife confronted him on the night of May 27 about a suspected relapse after 12 years sober and that he acknowledged the relapse when asked to leave the home.
- Their son Brendan checked his father’s location, removed a firearm from Claude’s truck for safety, found him unresponsive at the family business in the early morning and called 911.
- Investigators reported a cell phone with written directions and a small bag of THC edibles near the body while a toxicology report listed negative results for all analytes.
- Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup winner who had appeared in public days earlier, is survived by his wife and children and the released report has focused public attention on family intervention, substance relapse concerns and suicide-prevention issues.