--- title: Sheriff Holds Press Conference on Prince's Death: Watch Live description: The sheriff of Carver County, Minnesota, will hold a news conference on the death of Prince at 4 p.m. EST canonical: https://time.com/4305307/prince-death-sheriff-holds-press-conference-watch-live/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-22T19:33:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:58:44.759Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Sheriff Holds Press Conference on Prince's Death: Watch Live og:description: The sheriff of Carver County, Minnesota, will hold a news conference on the death of Prince at 4 p.m. EST og:url: https://time.com/4305307/prince-death-sheriff-holds-press-conference-watch-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87de78899c5b417c/69889069524fc0e2ffdf7b3d/prince-dead-flowers.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: epa05272572 Fans leave flowers, photographs and balloons to a makeshift memorial under a star bearing Prince's name on an outside wall of First Avenue, the nightclub where Prince got his start, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 22 April 2016. US singer-son og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sheriff Holds Press Conference on Prince's Death: Watch Live twitter:description: The sheriff of Carver County, Minnesota, will hold a news conference on the death of Prince at 4 p.m. EST twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87de78899c5b417c/69889069524fc0e2ffdf7b3d/prince-dead-flowers.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: Sheriff Holds Press Conference on Prince's Death by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 22, 2016 7:33 PM CUT  Fans leave flowers, photographs and balloons to a makeshift memorial on an outside wall of First Avenue, the nightclub where Prince got his start, in Minneapolis on April 22, 2016. Fans leave flowers, photographs and balloons to a makeshift memorial on an outside wall of First Avenue, the nightclub where Prince got his start, in Minneapolis on April 22, 2016.Craig Lassig—EPA by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 22, 2016 7:33 PM CUT ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4305307/prince-death-sheriff-holds-press-conference-watch-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4305307/prince-death-sheriff-holds-press-conference-watch-live/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Sheriff Holds Press Conference on Prince's Death","datePublished":"2016-04-22T19:33:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:58:44.759Z","description":"The sheriff of Carver County, Minnesota, will hold a news conference on the death of Prince at 4 p.m. EST","url":"https://time.com/4305307/prince-death-sheriff-holds-press-conference-watch-live/","keywords":["Music","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87de78899c5b417c/69889069524fc0e2ffdf7b3d/prince-dead-flowers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87de78899c5b417c/69889069524fc0e2ffdf7b3d/prince-dead-flowers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"epa05272572 Fans leave flowers, photographs and balloons to a makeshift memorial under a star bearing Prince's name on an outside wall of First Avenue, the nightclub where Prince got his start, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 22 April 2016. US singer-son","caption":"epa05272572 Fans leave flowers, photographs and balloons to a makeshift memorial under a star bearing Prince's name on an outside wall of First Avenue, the nightclub where Prince got his start, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 22 April 2016. US singer-son","creditText":"Craig Lassig—EPA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4305307/prince-death-sheriff-holds-press-conference-watch-live/","name":"Watch Live: Sheriff Holds Press Conference on Prince's Death"}}]}] ```