 On 23 April 2014, it was reported that Shand had been taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, New York, after sustaining a serious head injury caused by a fall outside the Rose Bar, of the Gramercy Park Hotel, after lighting a cigarette.Earlier in the evening he had attended a fund-raising auction at Sotheby's in aid of the Elephant Family.Later that same day, it was reported that Shand had died.