"Bad things happened to the most innocent people," her brother, Brandon, wrote on Twitter. "My sister died in the most terrible way, and I'm in so much pain right now."

Maxwell, a member of the Grammy-nominated group Brownstone, became famous in the '90s. She later pursued a solo career, Billboard reports.

Maxwell and her husband, Danish producer Carsten Schack, lived together in Los Angeles with their son, according to reports from Us Weekly and the New York Daily News.

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