Dave Matthews Band saxophonist and founding member LeRoi Moore died on Tuesday at the age of 46 from unexpected complications stemming from injuries he had suffered in an ATV accident on his Virginia farm.

According to a statement released on the band’s Web site, LeRoi Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles.

The band’s saxophonist was injured on June 30 in an all-terrain vehicle accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia, breaking several ribs and puncturing a lung, E! Online reported. He was initially hospitalized in late June, but was soon discharged. Moreover, he had recently come back to Los Angeles in order to commence a physical rehabilitation program, but was re-hospitalized in mid-July due to complications connected with the wounds sustained in the accident.

Dave Matthews paid tribute to the former saxophonist last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, after the group’s first performance, announcing the musician’s death. “He gave up his ghost to heaven and we will miss him always,” the singer said, as quoted by E! Online. “It’s always easier to leave than be left,” he added, the same source reported.

LeRoi Moore was best known for wearing dark sunglasses at gigs. Although he was classically trained, he claimed that jazz was his foremost musical influence, according to a biography on the Dave Matthews Band Web site, cited by The Associated Press.

The group was founded in 1991 in Charlottesville, Virginia, and drew national attention with the album “Under the Table and Dreaming.” In addition to this, they won a Grammy award in 1997 for the hit “So Much to Say.”