On October 6, 2017, May went into cardiac arrest and died. May had been battling pneumonia for several weeks and had canceled shows over the previous month, his publicist Stacey Pokluda confirmed following his death. He was 45 years old.[24][25] It was later published that, hours before his death, May was scheduled to do a meet-and-greet after his final performance at Harrah's in Las Vegas around midnight, but he had already shown signs of his deteriorating condition.[26]