The investigation into the death of Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, while vacationing with his family at a beach hotel in Manuel Antonio, on Costa Rica’s Central Pacific coast, continues with a line of investigation after the cause of his death was determined last Wednesday to be carbon monoxide poisoning.
Miller Gardner died on March 21 and the Costa Rican authorities reported that they performed a carboxyhemoglobin test, a compound that is generated when carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin in the blood, and that it showed a saturation of 64%, which is considered lethal, with only exceeding 50%.
“It is important to note that next to this room there is a machine room, where it is believed that there could be some kind of contamination towards these rooms,” said Randall Zuniga, director of the Judicial Investigation Agency.
The hotel is under scrutiny by the authorities
The hotel denied the version that the room was contaminated with carbon monoxide and that this was the cause of his death, however, the official version is that being next to a machine room that controls the mechanisms of the pool of the place could have generated the intoxication.
After the announcement of the cause of death of Miller Gardner, Health Minister Mary Munive Angermuller revealed that her agency will also conduct an investigation to follow up on the tragedy of the death of the son of the former Yankees player.
“The Ministry of Health is also investigating what happened in a hotel in Manuel Antonio after a report by the Judicial Investigation Agency indicating the unfortunate death of a person by carbon monoxide inhalation,” Angermuller said in a statement.
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