Officials in Costa Rica have confirmed the official cause of death for Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of earlier New York Yankees Plays Brett Gardner, who died under mysterious circumstances on March 21 while he was on a family holiday.
The first study in the days that followed Miller’s tragic passers -by focused on suffocation, which was later excluded. The study then killed for food poisoning as a possible cause of death, but on Wednesday night Costa Rica Judicial Investigative Agency (OIJ) director Randall Zúñiga said that toxicological results confirmed that he died as a result of Coal monoxide poisoning.
The Gardner family stayed at Arenas del Mar Hotel in Manuel Antonio. (With the permission of New York Yankees)
“It is important to note that next to this room is a dedicated engine room where it is assumed that there may be some form of pollution against these spaces,” Zúñiga said.
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Zúñiga said Miller was tested for carboxyhemoglobin, a compound generated when carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin in the blood. The test showed a saturation level of 64%. It is considered deadly when carboxyhemoglobin saturation exceeds 50%.
Gardner -The family stayed at Arenas del Mar Hotel in Manuel Antonio.
Earlier this week, OIJ suggested that carbon monoxide poisoning was likely to be the cause of death, but officials at the hotel denied these claims. A spokesman for the hotel told Pakinomist Digital that the levels in the hotel room “were non-existent and non-fatal.”
Miller, 14, had a carboxyhemoglobin saturation level of 64%. (With the permission of New York Yankees)
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Pakinomist Digital reached the spokesman again after Wednesday’s announcement.
The Gardner family said in a statement after Miller’s departure that several family members became ill during the trip.
“We have so many questions and so few answers at this time, but we know he died peacefully in his sleep on the morning of Friday, March 21,” the statement reads. “Miller was a beloved son and brother, and we are yet to understand our lives without his contagious smile. He loved football, baseball, golf, hunting, fishing, his family and his friends. He lived life to life every single day.”
Yankees’ Brett Gardner goes off the field after the Tampa Bay Rays game on October 2, 2021 in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)
Gardner was an outfielder for Yankees for 14 seasons and were on the team when they won their last World Series Title in 2009. He spent his entire career in Bronx, last played in 2021.
