The death of Miller Gardner, the 14 -year -old son of former New York Voltueur Yankees, Brett Gardner, is the subject of a survey linked to a possible carbon monoxide poisoning, said Randall Zuniga, director of the Costa Rica (OIJ), said on Monday.
A spokesperson for the OIJ confirmed to ESPN by SMS that investigators think that death is accidental rather than the result of a unfair game.
“In addition, this investigation was closely coordinated with the FBI in the United States,” Zuniga said at the press conference.
Zuniga also said that tests had been carried out in “the room that the family was staying on Friday – a week after Miller Gardner was found in his hotel room in a popular holiday resort – when” high contamination emissions by carbon monoxide were detected “. He said it suggested that death could have been “inhaling dangerous gases”. He said that these were initial results and that the results of forensic toxicology are still to come.
According to Zuniga, the room that was tested was adjacent to “a machine room”, which, according to investigators, is a source of contamination.
“Levels of up to 600 parts per million have been found, when the correct level should be zero in this specific case,” said Zuniga.
OIJ spokesperson Juan Pablo Alvarado Garcia said that no additional information on whom else was in the room or how carbon monoxide affected others in adjacent rooms was immediately available. The OIJ told ESPN last week that asphyxiation – once studied as a potential death of death – had been excluded. Miller Gardner’s air passages were not obstructed, but there were traces of vomit, said the OIJ.
The presence of carbon monoxide was the last round of the investigation into the death of the youngest son of the former voltiper, who, according to the family, asked many questions but provided few answers. Brett Gardner and his wife, Jessica, announced the death of their son on March 23 in a statement published by the Yankees. The press release indicates that Miller had fallen ill, as well as several other members of the family, on vacation.
Last Monday, the United States Embassy in Costa Rica and the US State Department confirmed in ESPN the death of an American citizen in Costa Rica on March 21, but offered no additional detail on the cause of death.
“Out of respect for the private life of the family and relatives during this difficult period, we have no comments at the moment,” said a spokesperson for the State Department in ESPN.
During a phone call on Tuesday with ESPN, Alvarado Garcia said that the 14 -year -old was with family members who told investigators that they had “gone to eat in a restaurant and that food had made them sick”. We do not know which family members were with him and where the restaurant was. A study was requested from the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Teaching in Nutrition and Health (Inciensa). Almost a week later, OIJ said the fire department and the Ministry of Health had been informed of contamination.
Miller Gardner played football at Lycée in Southern Carolina and wore n ° 11, that his father put on for 14 seasons of MLB, all with the Yankees. Brett Gardner, a popular team leader, was a member of the New York Championship team in 2009 and retired in 2021.
