The death of Miller Gardner, a 14 -year -old son of a former New York Yankees Outfielder Brett GardnerIt is investigated in connection with the possible poisoning of carbon monoxide, Randall Zuniga, director of the Department of Judicial Investigation in Costa Rica (OIJ), he said at a press conference on Monday.
The spokesperson Oij confirmed ESPN with a text message that investigators believe that death is more random than a foul result.
“Moreover, this investigation was closely coordinated with the FBI in the United States,” Zuniga said at a press conference.
Zuniga also said that the tests were carried out in the “room the family stayed” on Friday – a week after Miller Gardner was found in his hotel room in a popular resort neighborhood – when “high coal -oxide contamination emissions were detected”. He said it indicated that death could have been from “inhalation of dangerous gases”. He said it was an initial finding and that the results of forensic toxicology were supposed to come.
According to Zuniga, the room that was tested was adjacent to the “machine room” that investigators believe it is a source of contamination.
“The levels of up to 600 parts per million have been found, where the right level should be zero in this particular case,” Zuniga said.
Juan Pablo Alvarado spokesman said that no more information about who was in the room or how others were immediately available in neighboring rooms. Oij last week, ESPN said that asphyxies were excluded – as soon as he was investigated as the potential cause of death. Miller Gardner’s Air Passages were not defended, but there were traces of vomiting, Oij said.
The presence of carbon monoxide was the last turn in the investigation of the death of the youngest son of the former outfield, whom the family said had asked many questions, but provided several answers. Last Sunday Brett Gardner and his wife Jessica announced the death of his son in a Yankees statement. The statement states that Miller has become ill along with several other family members while on vacation.
Last Monday, the United States Embassy in Costa Rica and the US Foreign Ministry confirmed ESPN the death of an American citizen in Costa Rica on Friday, March 21, but did not provide any further details of the cause of death.
“We do not have any further comment at the respect of family privacy and loved ones at this difficult time,” said state ministry spokesman ESPN.
On a telephone call last Tuesday with ESPN Alvarado Garcia said he was with family members who told the investigators that “they went to eat in a restaurant and that food was ill”. It is not clear which family members were with him and where the restaurant was placed. The study was required at the Costa Rican Institute for Nutrition and Health and Health (Inc nowa). Almost a week later, Oyj said that fire brigades and the Ministry of Health were informed about contamination.
Miller Gardner played football in South Carolina in high school and wore No. 11, which his father dressed during 14 Mlb season, all with Yankees. Brett Gardner, the popular team leader, was a member of the New York Championship 2009 and retired in 2021.
