Soul Train founder Don Cornelius' death has officially been ruled a suicide one week after he was found in his home with a gunshot to the head...
The coroner's office made the determination after concluding an autopsy on Friday.
Speculating on why Don might have taken his own life, former Soul Train host Shermar Moore tells Entertainment Tonight,
"I don't know what his health was like. I had heard rumors that it was early [onset] dementia, Alzheimer's, things like that."
"I'd heard that he was sick. If he did line all his ducks up, so to speak, if he did deal with all his personal things to have this departure, then I tip my cap to him because that's a show of love -- I'm going to love the people around me, I'm going to give you all I've got -- and maybe he felt like he was tapped out, you know? And he, for himself, felt he needed to take care of himself in his way."
"I hope that wherever he is now, he's at peace. I don't know how he got to this place. I don't know what made him take his own life this morning. But after we shed our tears, after we say our prayers, after we put him to rest in our own ways, I hope there's a lot of celebration."
