Such a bizarre and tragic story. Back on November 15, it was announced that country and folk singer and songwriter Todd Snider had passed away following a battle with pneumonia. Days earlier, Snider had been admitted to the hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee just outside of Nashville after canceling the rest of his 2025 tour following a bizarre string of incidents while on the road in Salt Lake City, Utah. Earlier this month when country/folk artist, Snider was scheduled to play a show at Salt Lake City’s Commonwealth Room. However, just before he was set to go up on stage, the venue shared that the singer-songwriter would be unable to perform due to “injuries sustained in an incident.” “Due to injuries sustained in an incident last night, Todd Snider will be unable to perform at the Commonwealth Room tonight (Nov. 1) in Salt Lake City. We deeply apologize for the postponement and appreciate everyone’s understanding as he gets treated. More information on a new date will be available soon.” His team followed that up with their own statement, claiming that the singer had been “violently attacked” and announcing the cancelation of the rest of the tour. “We are heartbroken to announce the cancellation of the ‘High, Lonesome and Then Some’ 2025 Tour dates. Ahead of Todd Snider’s show in Salt Lake City, Todd sustained severe injuries as the victim of a violent assault outside of his hotel. Todd will be unable to perform for an undetermined amount of time. We deeply apologize for the cancellation and any inconvenience it causes. We appreciate your understanding as Todd receives needed medical treatment. We hope to have more information on new dates soon.” But that was just the beginning, because Snider was actually arrested at the hospital and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for disorderly conduct, making violent threats, and trespassing. The country singer allegedly went to the hospital and said he was attacked, and once he was discharged and told he could leave, he refused and became combative. Reports say he cussed out staff, then briefly left the building before he returned to the hospital and made verbal threats to hospital staff. It was confirmed that police were called to investigate an alleged assault of a 59-year-old man (presumably Snider), but those were the only details that were provided. Body camera footage from the police responded to the calls showed a confused and possibly under the influence Snider (he has a known history of drug and alcohol abuse that stemmed from a debilitating back injury in the ’90s) leaving the hospital, and then attempting to get into their police car right away. He was apparently mistaken for a homeless person, and at one point in the video, he can be heard saying he’s “not homeless” and that he “has a band” and is “famous.” After his death, questions only intensified surrounding what turned out to be Snider’s final days, as well as the reported assault on the singer. But a police report from the incident shows that the police came to a much different determination as to what actually happened. According to Fox 13 in Salt Lake City, the assault was reported to Salt Lake City police by Snider’s manager in Nashville, who said that Snider had been taken to the hospital after suffering lacerations to his head from being hit with a glass bottle and that a doctor reported removing “broken glass” from his scalp. The final police report from the Salt Lake City Police Department calls into question the assault, reporting that surveillance video showed Snider’s tour bus outside his Salt Lake City hotel and Snider walking uninjured from the hotel to the bus. According to the hotel staff, Snider was reportedly “swaying and walking slightly off balance.” From there, Snider’s band was seen talking to him at the door of his bus later in the evening, but that after they left Snider remained in his bus alone for the rest of the night. Later that evening, Snider’s band returned from a group dinner and entered the bus to take food to the singer, where they found him “yelling out… and appeared to be in some sort of distress.” This led police to come to the conclusion that Snider likely fell in his bus and the injury was “self-induced” instead of the reported assault: “We are unable to confirm that an assault occurred on the tour bus. Due to all the reported actions above, it is likely that Todd may have fallen on the tour bus and struck his head causing the injury.” The report says that Snider may have believed he had been assaulted when he regained consciousness and realized he was injured. Regardless of what happened, it’s an incredibly tragic end to a legendary career.The post Police Find “No Evidence” Of Assault On Todd Snider, Believe Injuries Were “Self-Induced” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.