APRIL 1--With the tenth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide days away, below you'll find an assortment of Seattle Police Department documents compiled during the investigation of the grunge star's April 1994 death.

The chilling records range from reports from the first officer on the scene to the receipt for the shotgun Cobain, 27, bought a week before his death. A second group of police reports detail previous run-ins Cobain and wife Courtney Love had with the local cops.