Costa Rican authorities announced this week that carbon monoxide poisoning caused the death of 14-year-old Miller Gardner, the son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner.
Miller died in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, while on a family vacation.
Costa Rican judicial police officials said that the teenager’s carboxyhemoglobin test showed a saturation of 64 percent. Carboxyhemoglobin is created when carbon monoxide binds to hemoglobin in the blood.
“In this particular case, the saturation of 64 percent is much higher than the 50 percent that is considered lethal,” Judicial Investigation Agency director Randall Zúñiga said in a statement obtained by NTD. “This proves the police hypothesis that the death was due to exposure to poisonous gases such as carbon monoxide.”…