Karl Cochran (guitarist for Nuclear Assault and Joe Lynn Turner) has passed away

Author Benedetta Baldin - 5.3.2025

Police verified to local media that the American guitarist and songwriter Karl Cochran, who worked with Ace Frehley and Joe Lynn Turner, passed away following an accident in Bridgewater, New Jersey. He was sixty-one. According to the Bridgewater Police Department, Cochran was in the passenger seat of a 2015 Subaru Legacy vehicle when it struck a tree at approximately 7:20 a.m. local time on Wednesday, February 19, for unspecified reasons. Her mother, Arna Chocran, 90, was at the wheel. The accident happened on private property. In extremely critical condition, Karl Cochran was flown to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where he passed away. Our deepest sympathies to Corhan’s family, friends and loved ones.